[RESULT] [VOTE] [PROPOSAL] cTAKES for the Apache Incubator
The vote passes with the 12 +1 votes (9 binding), no -1 votes. Binding (9): Grant Ingersoll Matthew B. Franklin Jean-Baptiste Onofré Tommaso Teofili Chris A Mattmann Brett Porter Alan D. Cabrera Jukka Zitting Ross Gardler Non-Binding (3): Jorn Kottmann Fabian Christ Marshall Schor Thanks for voting, Pei - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: [VOTE] [PROPOSAL] cTAKES for the Apache Incubator
+1 Jörn On 06/05/2012 05:36 PM, Chen, Pei wrote: Hi, We are proposing cTAKES to be an Apache Incubator Project and would like to request that the IPMC vote for cTAKES to join the Incubator. Below, you will find the original proposal and details. Please cast your vote: [ ] +1 to recommend cTAKES to be an Apache Incubator Project [ ] 0 don't care [ ] -1 no, don't recommend yet, (because...) Thanks, Pei On 05/30/2012 11:59 PM, Chen, Pei wrote: Hi All, We would like to propose cTAKES to be an Apache Incubator project. 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 We're excited about the opportunity to work with ASF and the community to create an Incubator project for Natural Language Processing for the clinical domain. We'll welcome all feedback on the proposal. Thanks. --- Pei Chen Lead Application Development Specialist Childrens Hospital Boston / Harvard Medical School 300 Longwood Avenue, Enders 142 Boston, MA 02115 tel: (617) 919-4423 fax: (617) 730-0057 pei.c...@childrens.harvard.edu - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: [VOTE] [PROPOSAL] cTAKES for the Apache Incubator
+1 Marshall Schor On 6/5/2012 11:36 AM, Chen, Pei wrote: Hi, We are proposing cTAKES to be an Apache Incubator Project and would like to request that the IPMC vote for cTAKES to join the Incubator. Below, you will find the original proposal and details. Please cast your vote: [ ] +1 to recommend cTAKES to be an Apache Incubator Project [ ] 0 don't care [ ] -1 no, don't recommend yet, (because...) Thanks, Pei On 05/30/2012 11:59 PM, Chen, Pei wrote: Hi All, We would like to propose cTAKES to be an Apache Incubator project. 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 We're excited about the opportunity to work with ASF and the community to create an Incubator project for Natural Language Processing for the clinical domain. We'll welcome all feedback on the proposal. Thanks. --- Pei Chen Lead Application Development Specialist Childrens Hospital Boston / Harvard Medical School 300 Longwood Avenue, Enders 142 Boston, MA 02115 tel: (617) 919-4423 fax: (617) 730-0057 pei.c...@childrens.harvard.edu - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: [VOTE] [PROPOSAL] cTAKES for the Apache Incubator
+1 (binding) Tommaso 2012/6/5 Chen, Pei pei.c...@childrens.harvard.edu Hi, We are proposing cTAKES to be an Apache Incubator Project and would like to request that the IPMC vote for cTAKES to join the Incubator. Below, you will find the original proposal and details. Please cast your vote: [ ] +1 to recommend cTAKES to be an Apache Incubator Project [ ] 0 don't care [ ] -1 no, don't recommend yet, (because...) Thanks, Pei On 05/30/2012 11:59 PM, Chen, Pei wrote: Hi All, We would like to propose cTAKES to be an Apache Incubator project. 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 We're excited about the opportunity to work with ASF and the community to create an Incubator project for Natural Language Processing for the clinical domain. We'll welcome all feedback on the proposal. Thanks. --- Pei Chen Lead Application Development Specialist Childrens Hospital Boston / Harvard Medical School 300 Longwood Avenue, Enders 142 Boston, MA 02115 tel: (617) 919-4423 fax: (617) 730-0057 pei.c...@childrens.harvard.edu - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: [VOTE] [PROPOSAL] cTAKES for the Apache Incubator
+1 (binding) Regards JB On 06/06/2012 09:36 AM, Tommaso Teofili wrote: +1 (binding) Tommaso 2012/6/5 Chen, Peipei.c...@childrens.harvard.edu Hi, We are proposing cTAKES to be an Apache Incubator Project and would like to request that the IPMC vote for cTAKES to join the Incubator. Below, you will find the original proposal and details. Please cast your vote: [ ] +1 to recommend cTAKES to be an Apache Incubator Project [ ] 0 don't care [ ] -1 no, don't recommend yet, (because...) Thanks, Pei On 05/30/2012 11:59 PM, Chen, Pei wrote: Hi All, We would like to propose cTAKES to be an Apache Incubator project. 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 We're excited about the opportunity to work with ASF and the community to create an Incubator project for Natural Language Processing for the clinical domain. We'll welcome all feedback on the proposal. Thanks. --- Pei Chen Lead Application Development Specialist Childrens Hospital Boston / Harvard Medical School 300 Longwood Avenue, Enders 142 Boston, MA 02115 tel: (617) 919-4423 fax: (617) 730-0057 pei.c...@childrens.harvard.edu - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org -- Jean-Baptiste Onofré jbono...@apache.org http://blog.nanthrax.net Talend - http://www.talend.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: [VOTE] [PROPOSAL] cTAKES for the Apache Incubator
+1 (binding) On Jun 5, 2012, at 5:48 PM, Chen, Pei wrote: Including the original Proposal raw text below this time: Hi, We are proposing cTAKES to be an Apache Incubator Project and would like to request that the IPMC vote for cTAKES to join the Incubator. Below, you will find the original proposal and details. Please cast your vote: [ ] +1 to recommend cTAKES to be an Apache Incubator Project [ ] 0 don't care [ ] -1 no, don't recommend yet, (because...) Thanks, Pei = cTAKES Proposal = The following is a proposal for a new top-level project within the ASF. == Abstract == cTAKES: (clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System) is an natural language processing tool for information extraction from electronic medical record clinical free-text. == Proposal == cTAKES comprises a collection of components and tooling written in Java specifically trained for the clinical domain, and creates rich linguistic and semantic annotations that can be utilized by clinical decision support systems clinical research. == Background == The development of cTAKES started in 2006 by a team of physicians, computer scientists and software engineers at the Mayo Clinic. The development team was led by Dr. Guergana Savova Dr. Christopher Chute. cTAKES is released open source under an Apache v2.0 license. This system was deployed at Mayo and is currently an integral part of their clinical data management infrastructure and has processed in excess of 80 million clinical notes. Currently, the core development team is co-located at Mayo Clinic and Children's Hospital Boston following Dr. Savova's move to Children's Hospital Boston in early 2010. Additional collaborations with external groups at University of Colorado, Brandeis University, University of Pittsburgh, University of California at San Diego continue to extend the capabilities of cTAKES into areas such Temporal Reasoning, Clinical Question and Answering, and coreference resolution for the clinical domain. In 2010, cTAKES was adopted by the I2B2 program and is a central component of the SHARP Area 4. The current cTAKES components include: * Sentence boundary detector * Rule-based tokenizer to separate punctuations from words * Normalizer * Context dependent tokenizer * Part-of-speech tagger * Phrasal chunker * Dictionary lookup annotator and normalization to an ontology * Context annotator * Negation detector * Dependency parser * Constituency parser * Semantic Role Labeler * Coreference resolver * Module for the identification of patient smoking status * Drug mention annotator == Rationale == We believe there is a clear gap between cutting edge technologies developed out of research labs and in the clinical practice. We believe that moving cTAKES development to the Apache development community will lead to faster innovation, better integration with other open source software, and broader adoption of cTAKES within clinical institutions and improve our healthcare system. We believe that having cTAKES on Apache will encourage the development of a basic set of open source components that will jumpstart these developers' efforts. == Initial Goals == The initial goals of the proposed project are: * Bring the community together at the ASF and make the development process transparent for them * Write user documentation about all major components * Automated build/continuous integration * Automate regression tests * Produce an Incubating release == Current Status == === Meritocracy === Some of the initial committers are familiar with Apache's idea of meritocracy, others aren't. We will get everybody on the same level as part of the incubation process. === Community === cTAKES already has a considerable user base, both in industry and academia. === Core Developers === See the initial committer list. === Alignment === cTAKES has tie-ins with several existing Apache projects. We have been building our components using the UIMA framework. We are also reusing existing Apache projects such as Lucene, Solr, Maven. We expect these collaborations to strengthen further after our move to Apache and experiment with other projects under the Lucene umbrella such as Hadoop and Mahout. Another obvious connection exists to some of the projects under the OpenNLP umbrella. == Known Risks == === Orphaned products === The project has been around for quite a number of years already, it has a well-established user community and a diverse set of committers. === Inexperience with Open Source === cTAKES has been an open source project for many years. Many of the developers are already familiar with both open source in general and the ASF in particular. === Homogenous Developers === The current group of developers is very diverse and spans globally and across multiple institutions. === Reliance on Salaried Developers === Most
Re: [VOTE] [PROPOSAL] cTAKES for the Apache Incubator
On 06/06/2012, at 1:36 AM, Chen, Pei wrote: Hi, We are proposing cTAKES to be an Apache Incubator Project and would like to request that the IPMC vote for cTAKES to join the Incubator. Below, you will find the original proposal and details. Please cast your vote: [ ] +1 to recommend cTAKES to be an Apache Incubator Project [ ] 0 don't care [ ] -1 no, don't recommend yet, (because...) +1 Cheers, Brett -- Brett Porter br...@apache.org http://brettporter.wordpress.com/ http://au.linkedin.com/in/brettporter http://twitter.com/brettporter - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
[VOTE] [PROPOSAL] cTAKES for the Apache Incubator
Hi, We are proposing cTAKES to be an Apache Incubator Project and would like to request that the IPMC vote for cTAKES to join the Incubator. Below, you will find the original proposal and details. Please cast your vote: [ ] +1 to recommend cTAKES to be an Apache Incubator Project [ ] 0 don't care [ ] -1 no, don't recommend yet, (because...) Thanks, Pei On 05/30/2012 11:59 PM, Chen, Pei wrote: Hi All, We would like to propose cTAKES to be an Apache Incubator project. 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 We're excited about the opportunity to work with ASF and the community to create an Incubator project for Natural Language Processing for the clinical domain. We'll welcome all feedback on the proposal. Thanks. --- Pei Chen Lead Application Development Specialist Childrens Hospital Boston / Harvard Medical School 300 Longwood Avenue, Enders 142 Boston, MA 02115 tel: (617) 919-4423 fax: (617) 730-0057 pei.c...@childrens.harvard.edu - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
RE: [VOTE] [PROPOSAL] cTAKES for the Apache Incubator
Including the original Proposal raw text below this time: Hi, We are proposing cTAKES to be an Apache Incubator Project and would like to request that the IPMC vote for cTAKES to join the Incubator. Below, you will find the original proposal and details. Please cast your vote: [ ] +1 to recommend cTAKES to be an Apache Incubator Project [ ] 0 don't care [ ] -1 no, don't recommend yet, (because...) Thanks, Pei = cTAKES Proposal = The following is a proposal for a new top-level project within the ASF. == Abstract == cTAKES: (clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System) is an natural language processing tool for information extraction from electronic medical record clinical free-text. == Proposal == cTAKES comprises a collection of components and tooling written in Java specifically trained for the clinical domain, and creates rich linguistic and semantic annotations that can be utilized by clinical decision support systems clinical research. == Background == The development of cTAKES started in 2006 by a team of physicians, computer scientists and software engineers at the Mayo Clinic. The development team was led by Dr. Guergana Savova Dr. Christopher Chute. cTAKES is released open source under an Apache v2.0 license. This system was deployed at Mayo and is currently an integral part of their clinical data management infrastructure and has processed in excess of 80 million clinical notes. Currently, the core development team is co-located at Mayo Clinic and Children's Hospital Boston following Dr. Savova's move to Children's Hospital Boston in early 2010. Additional collaborations with external groups at University of Colorado, Brandeis University, University of Pittsburgh, University of California at San Diego continue to extend the capabilities of cTAKES into areas such Temporal Reasoning, Clinical Question and Answering, and coreference resolution for the clinical domain. In 2010, cTAKES was adopted by the I2B2 program and is a central component of the SHARP Area 4. The current cTAKES components include: * Sentence boundary detector * Rule-based tokenizer to separate punctuations from words * Normalizer * Context dependent tokenizer * Part-of-speech tagger * Phrasal chunker * Dictionary lookup annotator and normalization to an ontology * Context annotator * Negation detector * Dependency parser * Constituency parser * Semantic Role Labeler * Coreference resolver * Module for the identification of patient smoking status * Drug mention annotator == Rationale == We believe there is a clear gap between cutting edge technologies developed out of research labs and in the clinical practice. We believe that moving cTAKES development to the Apache development community will lead to faster innovation, better integration with other open source software, and broader adoption of cTAKES within clinical institutions and improve our healthcare system. We believe that having cTAKES on Apache will encourage the development of a basic set of open source components that will jumpstart these developers' efforts. == Initial Goals == The initial goals of the proposed project are: * Bring the community together at the ASF and make the development process transparent for them * Write user documentation about all major components * Automated build/continuous integration * Automate regression tests * Produce an Incubating release == Current Status == === Meritocracy === Some of the initial committers are familiar with Apache's idea of meritocracy, others aren't. We will get everybody on the same level as part of the incubation process. === Community === cTAKES already has a considerable user base, both in industry and academia. === Core Developers === See the initial committer list. === Alignment === cTAKES has tie-ins with several existing Apache projects. We have been building our components using the UIMA framework. We are also reusing existing Apache projects such as Lucene, Solr, Maven. We expect these collaborations to strengthen further after our move to Apache and experiment with other projects under the Lucene umbrella such as Hadoop and Mahout. Another obvious connection exists to some of the projects under the OpenNLP umbrella. == Known Risks == === Orphaned products === The project has been around for quite a number of years already, it has a well-established user community and a diverse set of committers. === Inexperience with Open Source === cTAKES has been an open source project for many years. Many of the developers are already familiar with both open source in general and the ASF in particular. === Homogenous Developers === The current group of developers is very diverse and spans globally and across multiple institutions. === Reliance on Salaried Developers === Most of the developers are not paid to work specifically on cTAKES, so there is little reliance on salaried developers. === Relationships with Other Apache Products
Re: [VOTE] [PROPOSAL] cTAKES for the Apache Incubator
+1 (binding). Really looking forward to mentoring this project. Cheers, Chris On Jun 5, 2012, at 8:36 AM, Chen, Pei wrote: Hi, We are proposing cTAKES to be an Apache Incubator Project and would like to request that the IPMC vote for cTAKES to join the Incubator. Below, you will find the original proposal and details. Please cast your vote: [ ] +1 to recommend cTAKES to be an Apache Incubator Project [ ] 0 don't care [ ] -1 no, don't recommend yet, (because...) Thanks, Pei On 05/30/2012 11:59 PM, Chen, Pei wrote: Hi All, We would like to propose cTAKES to be an Apache Incubator project. 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 We're excited about the opportunity to work with ASF and the community to create an Incubator project for Natural Language Processing for the clinical domain. We'll welcome all feedback on the proposal. Thanks. --- Pei Chen Lead Application Development Specialist Childrens Hospital Boston / Harvard Medical School 300 Longwood Avenue, Enders 142 Boston, MA 02115 tel: (617) 919-4423 fax: (617) 730-0057 pei.c...@childrens.harvard.edu - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org ++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: [VOTE] [PROPOSAL] cTAKES for the Apache Incubator
+1 Note, it best to start a new thread for votes since some mail clients (like mine) will hide the vote in the previous discussion thread. From a mobile device - forgive errors and terseness On Jun 5, 2012 4:36 PM, Chen, Pei pei.c...@childrens.harvard.edu wrote: Hi, We are proposing cTAKES to be an Apache Incubator Project and would like to request that the IPMC vote for cTAKES to join the Incubator. Below, you will find the original proposal and details. Please cast your vote: [ ] +1 to recommend cTAKES to be an Apache Incubator Project [ ] 0 don't care [ ] -1 no, don't recommend yet, (because...) Thanks, Pei On 05/30/2012 11:59 PM, Chen, Pei wrote: Hi All, We would like to propose cTAKES to be an Apache Incubator project. 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 We're excited about the opportunity to work with ASF and the community to create an Incubator project for Natural Language Processing for the clinical domain. We'll welcome all feedback on the proposal. Thanks. --- Pei Chen Lead Application Development Specialist Childrens Hospital Boston / Harvard Medical School 300 Longwood Avenue, Enders 142 Boston, MA 02115 tel: (617) 919-4423 fax: (617) 730-0057 pei.c...@childrens.harvard.edu - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
