Having the data is not synonymous with umls authentication. Out of the box, you do need internet connectivity for the authentication to take place. It will happen once during startup. That will be sufficient for as long as the instance is running.
The authentication is really meant to be umls' way to measure usage as much as it is a permission scheme. There is a mechanism for the authentication to be proxied through a different url which can be built onto to create something like you're thinking of. I've used that, but for a different purpose. But in these days of ever diminishing government, it's valuable for the nlm to have those authentication hits. Peter On Sat, May 23, 2020, 6:30 PM Akram <as...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: > I want to use cTAKES offline > > I am using command line > > run\runClinicalPipeline -i E:\cTAKES\files\MedReps\Input --xmiOut > E:\cTAKES\files\MedReps\Output --user myuser --pass mypassword > > This is my piper file > > load DefaultTokenizerPipeline.piper > > add DefaultJCasTermAnnotator > > load AttributeCleartkSubPipe.piper > > writeXmis > > > I thought UMLS will be accessed once and download all needed files so the > next time it does not need the internet to access **UMLS** > > but I was wrong. > > When I work offline cTAKES does not work in attempt to access UMLS and > gives error. > > I found that UMLS offers to download its data, so I did > > I downloaded **umls-2020AA-full.zip** > > I extracted Metathesaurus using MetamorphoSys and added it to > > E:\cTAKES\resources\org\apache\ctakes\dictionary\lookup\umls2020aa > > It is a huge folder 30GB+ full of .RRF files but did not work > > Not sure where the problem is > > do I have to change pipers? > > do I have to change the command? > > do I have to change files in the folder umls2020aa? > > > How to fix these problems to use cTAKES offline? > >
