Hi, my (uninformed) view on cTAKES was that it is mainly based on black-box machine learning models.
There were some mentions of rule-based approaches on the mailing list and a quick look in the source code revealed to me some functionality that is based on FSMs and regular expressions (and the grey area of rule logic implemented in plain java). I'm just curious. Is this code actively used in cTAKES and is there a general position of the cTAKES community on rules-based/white-box approaches? Best, Peter
