Hi Maite Meseure, Check the cTakes User guide on UMLS setup:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CTAKES/cTAKES+3.2+User+Install+Guide#cTAKES3.2UserInstallGuide-(Recommended)AddUMLSaccessrights which (in part) points you towards obtaining a license to use the NIH UMLS dictionary: https://uts.nlm.nih.gov/license.html Sean ________________________________________ From: Maite Meseure Hugues [meseure.ma...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2014 4:17 PM To: dev@ctakes.apache.org Subject: Using cTakes programmatically Dear all, I allow myself to contact you in order to ask you how I can simply add cTAKES packages in my java code to get the same output than the XML output from the CPE (using clinical-pipeline/ test_plaintext.xml as descriptor). I've explored and tested the cTakes example ( using ClinicalPipelineFactory.getDefaultPipeline() ) but I've got this error message: [...] https://uts-ws.nlm.nih.gov/restful/isValidUMLSUser: maitemeseure Exception in thread "main" org.apache.uima.resource.ResourceInitializationException: Initialization of annotator class "org.apache.ctakes.dictionary.lookup.ae.UmlsDictionaryLookupAnnotator" failed. (Descriptor: <unknown>) Thanks a lot for your time. Best regards -- -- Maïté Meseure Hugues