Hi Andrew, You will need to download the umls data from the nlm. Go to their website https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/ and use the "Downloads" button in the "Access" panel.
I will put some more instructions on the wiki page when I get a chance. After you download and build a local copy of the umls, run the gui. In your ctakes resources/ directory, go to org/apache/ctakes/dictionary/lookup/fast/ and you will see an xml file and a directory named after your custom dictionary. Copy those to the headless server in that ctakes' resources/org/apache/../fast/ directory. See the (info) panel at the bottom of https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CTAKES/Dictionary+Creator+GUI To see how to point ctakes to your custom gui. By the way, if you have a small number of terms and don't need the umls you can manually create a bar separated value (bsv) file. I am guessing that you have more than a few terms. Sean -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Phillips [mailto:skeled...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2017 6:28 PM To: dev@ctakes.apache.org Subject: Re: Building a Custom cTAKES Dictionary [EXTERNAL] Hi Sean, I haven't found a good way to launch GUIs remotely (BTW I'm also using Linux on my machine). However I also have a local cTAKES install and I'm trying to do the modification there. However I'm not sure what to enter into the UMLS installation field, as I cannot find a META directory or RRF files. Also what file(s) woud I transfer to the server once I have built the new dictionary? Thanks, Andrew *Andrew Phillips* Computer Technician / Programmer and Mobile Experience Consultant Phone: (678) 753-5313 Email: skeled...@gmail.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/aphillipstech "A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding." - Isaac Newton On 28 June 2017 at 12:35, Finan, Sean <sean.fi...@childrens.harvard.edu> wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > Can you xWin (or other) to the server to launch gui applications? > If so, try the dictionary creator gui: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__cwiki.apache.org_ > &d=DwIBaQ&c=qS4goWBT7poplM69zy_3xhKwEW14JZMSdioCoppxeFU&r=fs67GvlGZstT > pyIisCYNYmQCP6r0bcpKGd4f7d4gTao&m=375tbajCm8PjEi_45ahKX7bDghJ_w3fOBIh9 > vAMpylU&s=0JwVENy0eLeCkfQVSfkUBwhF_xAzBzXGYCWVX9_e65U&e= > confluence/display/CTAKES/Dictionary+Creator+GUI > > > Sean > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Phillips [mailto:aphilli...@luc.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2017 1:14 PM > To: dev@ctakes.apache.org > Subject: Building a Custom cTAKES Dictionary [EXTERNAL] > > Hello, > > I am new to cTAKES and I'm trying to create a custom dictionary of > additional terms related to alcohol. How can I go about adding > semantic types such as food (T168), etc that aren't available by > default to the dictionary? The cTAKES install is located on a headless > Linux server that I access via SSH. > > Thank you, > Andrew > > *Andrew Phillips* > GitHub: github.com/skeledrew > LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/aphillipstech >
