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Report from the Apache cTAKES project [Pei Chen] ## Description: Apache clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES) is an open-source natural language processing system for information extraction from electronic medical record clinical free-text. ## Activity: A talk about cTAKES using Spark/BigTop on processing Twitter data was well received at ApacheCon NA 2015. The committee just released ctakes-3.2.2 on May 30, 2015 and contains a critical patch caused by a change by a 3rd party (NLM) validation service. Full Release notes: http://s.apache.org/ctakes-3.2.2-release-notes The committee is actively working on the next release cTAKES with new temporal components/models and various bug fixes in Jira. The committee is planning a local meetup (Boston) in the near future to integrate cTAKES with Docker for easier deployments. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 31 committers and 30 PMC members in the project. - Last PMC addition was Michelle Chen at Fri Jan 23 2015 - Last committer addition was Jim Gregoric at Sat Feb 28 2015 ## Releases: - 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015 - 3.2.1 was released on Dec 10 2014 - 3.2.0 was released on Jul 23 2014 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@ctakes.apache.org: - 160 subscribers (up 15 in the last 3 months): - 227 emails sent to list (211 in previous quarter) - u...@ctakes.apache.org: - 140 subscribers (up 14 in the last 3 months): - 93 emails sent to list (41 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 14 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 8 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
