Hi Pei, Thanks for your reply. I will get to work and let you know of my progress ASAP.
Arohi On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Chen, Pei <pei.c...@childrens.harvard.edu>wrote: > Hi Arohi, > Welcome! > To use cTAKES programmatically, I would suggest: > 1) Take a look at the current Type System [1] as that will outline all of > the available output that is supported in cTAKES. > 2) Understand a bit about UIMA [2], the framework that cTAKES was built on > top of. > 3) Take a look at uimaFIT[3] as that will probably make access the data > objects and running a pipeline much easier via java code. > 4) Take a look at a simple example such as that just extracts a list of > UMLS CUI's [4] > > [1] > http://ctakes.apache.org/user-faqs.html#what-are-the-available-attributes-types-in-ctakes > [2] http://uima.apache.org > [3] https://code.google.com/p/uimafit/ (in the process of being migrated > to the UIMA project) > [4] > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ctakes/trunk/ctakes-clinical-pipeline/src/main/java/org/apache/ctakes/clinicalpipeline/runtime/BagOfCUIsGenerator.java > > I hope that helps... > --Pei > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Arohi Kumar [mailto:ar...@mobipulse.in] > > Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 4:13 AM > > To: dev@ctakes.apache.org > > Subject: Information Regarding cTakes API from Java Program > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I am a newbie and am working on developing an application with Apache > > cTakes 3.0. > > > > I have installed Apache cTakes on my local machine using the tutorial > given at > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CTAKES/cTAKES+3.0+Develope > > r+Install+Guide > > . I have also downloaded cTakes resources and got my UMLS username and > > password approved. I have tested the installaton by invoking CAS Visual > > Debugger(CVD) from the command line, loading Analysis Engine as > > AggregatePlaintextUMLSProcessor and running. I am interested in exploring > > the different result fields that I am getting corresponding to the text > that I > > have given. *Please point me to some resources that will help me in > > understanding the result. Also is the result in XML format?* > > > > My issue is regarding running this process(giving text and receiving > results > > after analyzing the text using AggregatePlaintextUMLSProcessor) from a > Java > > Program as it will be easier to automate*. Please point me to relevant > > resources for doing this. * > > > > Thank you > > Arohi >
