Did you think about either using Docker or Vagrant to provision a working VM with custom configuration using either Chef or Puppet? That could be very helpful especially if you add a REST API exposing the methods.
Melek Somai On September 17, 2014 at 5:32:06 PM, Girivaraprasad Nambari ([email protected]) wrote: +1 On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Peter Szolovits <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd love this! --Pete Szolovits > > On Sep 17, 2014, at 5:14 PM, Pei Chen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > >
