Hi Christopher, The PAD Term Spotter hasn't been supported for over a year now [1]. It was mostly written with specialized rules and no one had been maintaining it. I am not sure if there are any generic diseases annotators; if you would be willing to contribute the changes, we can incorporate it.
[1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ctakes-user/201402.mbox/%3C6e55ab$8ci...@ironport10.mayo.edu%3E On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Christopher Baechle <cbaec...@my.fau.edu> wrote: > A project I inherited uses cTAKES 2.5 and modified the PAD Term > Spotter to detect the presence of the disease we're interested in. > After searching the archives, it looks like the PAD term spotter was > removed, but I couldn't find info as to why. > > I would like to migrate our code to the latest version of cTAKES. I > could just create an annotator and port the code and put it in the > pipeline, but it looks like cTAKES has had many enhancements since > 2.5. I wasn't sure if a more generic disease annotator was put in > place and disease specific annotators are not a good route. >
