Instead of using the AggregateUMLS engine, use AggregateTemplateFiller.xml (under ctakes-template-filler)
That engines does UMLS dictionary lookup and relation extraction etc and then runs the TemplateFillerAnnotator. Hope that helps -- James From: Anirban Chakraborti [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, May 02, 2014 10:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: cTAKES API documentation Timothy, To create CEMs I understand I will need the template filler API. which API to use. Also there is no associated documentation. I know to annotate UMLS concepts I have to use AggegrateUMLS engine. Now should I save the output in xml and run the template filler to get CEMS. Please guide On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Miller, Timothy <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Another resource that may be more useful for many use cases is the type system documentation. I seem to have lost that link -- can anyone please chime in with it? On 05/02/2014 11:05 AM, Masanz, James J. wrote: > Try > > http://ctakes.apache.org/apidocs/3.1.1/ > > -- James > > -----Original Message----- > From: Xiayuan Huang [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] > Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2014 7:41 PM > To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > Cc: Maha Zohbi > Subject: Re: cTAKES API documentation > > Yes, same question. I have been looking for API or documentation for > long. Could some one help guide to it? > > Thanks, > Xiayuan > > On 2014-05-01 18:53, Maha Zohbi wrote: >> Hi, >> >> We are looking to developing an application that processes >> unstructured medical data and feeds it into a decision support system. >> To do that we will use cTAKES. We downloaded the binary and followed >> the user guide. However, I couldn't find any API documentation. >> Can anyone point me to API documentation for cTAKES or a samples >> guide to use the API? >> >> Thanks -- Tim Miller Instructor Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 617-919-1223
