In my opinion, this user request is totally reasonable. Download time aside, it should take NO LONGER THAN 15 MINUTES to get started with cTakes. True, cTakes is massively powerful and UMLS is a license headache. Nonetheless!
This keeps coming up, we should strongly consider an improved VM distribution option so folks can get online with "copy-paste" text ready applications on their local machine. IT WOULD BE A GAME CHANGER IN A GOOD WAY I'm strongly considering making an Ubuntu 13.10 cTakes distribution for my own work, would others want this as well? http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop Yes I know thats a tall order, but its true ! :) We dont have to provide the full UMLS instance, just the non-commercial dictionaries. Just get new users "hooked on cTakes" with ICD9 diagnoses, procedures, medications annotations. How do the other committers feel about this? PS: I'm back and with more vigor++ On Oct 29, 2013, at 2:02 PM, "Chen, Pei" <pei.c...@childrens.harvard.edu> wrote: > Hi Pan, > Fwd'ing to dev@ > > From: Pan Teng [mailto:teng...@udel.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 4:37 PM > To: user-ow...@ctakes.apache.org > Subject: Fwd: cTAKES user interface > > Hi there, > I'm trying to explore the cTAKES system. Just curious whether there is an way > that I can use cTAKES system just in the terminal window by typing some > command line including input and then the output data can be generated? Your > kindly reply will be appreciated. > Best, > Pan > >
