Hi A.Ziehlke, Note: The CVD (CAS Visual Debugger) is an UIMA tool which is really helpful visualizing a single result mainly for debugging purposes. There are many ways to customize the output of cTAKES. Were you just looking for something simple to visualize the xml output? If so, then there is a tool called UIMA CAS viewer [1] where you can import the xml and pick and choose the Types you are interested in. Alternatively, there are programmatic ways to customize the output: Some examples include:
1) Writing a custom Java CASConsumer [2] where you can select the Types that your application may be interested in. 2) There is a GU[3] I in the sandbox area which is intended to make this easier for users to configure. Hope that helps. [1] http://uima.apache.org/d/uimaj-2.4.0/tutorials_and_users_guides.html#ugr.tug.cpe.configurator_and_viewer [2] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ctakes/trunk/ctakes-core/src/main/java/org/apache/ctakes/core/cc/ [3] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ctakes/sandbox/ctakes-gui/ From: AZiehlke @ knology [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of "Austin Ziehlke"@nike.apache.org Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 11:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Managing cTakes application output Greetings all. I am relatively new to cTakes, and am seeking some guidance on best use/practices. Specifically on the output generated by cTakes CVD. The XML output is verbose. I need to make that output more succinct to user needs. Is there a way in CVD to scale down the output, customize the output? Is the generated output based/controlled on the data in the dictionaries? If CVD does not allow customizing the output, do you have any suggestions on secondary tools that will make it easier to get to the medical info and hide/remove the lexical/grammar info. Is custom software necessary to parse the data? When I import the xml generated from CVD directly into Allegrograph, and display in Gruff, the resulting graph is enormous for one medical record entry. Perhaps there is some step between the output from CVD and the input to a datastore that can reduce the data to a manageable state? A.Ziehlke
