There seems to be an increasing amount questions regarding how to 'use/integrate' cTAKES. Some folks have been discussing an effort/focus in creating a clean starting point for cTAKES. This could be in the form of a clean, well-document API. (abstracting out UIMA, Annotators, Pipelines, Type System, etc.).
An example call would be as simple as .getUMLSConcepts(String document); //Under the hood, it would put together the necessary components and return a list of umls concepts. The new uimaFIT Factory style methods could be a good starting point. We were thinking of putting our thoughts as an example/interfaces into sandbox as a starting point. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CTAKES-313
