You can see the thread here: http://markmail.org/message/caqeffs32gll2eoa
This could be a project that, when it graduates, becomes a subproject of UIMA. 2 line summary from their mail:
cTAKES: (clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System) is an natural language processing tool for information extraction from electronic medical record clinical free-text. Additional information is available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTAKES and https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/VKC/cTAKES+2.5 . The draft proposal document is available at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/cTAKESProposal
-Marshall
