Hi, I am very new to cTakes. I want to work with it from Java. I followed the instructions in developer-install, and loaded the code into Eclipse. I can run the CPE and CVD from the ctakes-ClinicalPipelines project and I can use the FastUMLSAnnotator, so I know I have configured UMLS authentication properly.
However, I am very confused. Looking at the Eclipse setup, I see many, many projects. What are all these projects? I can't find any documentation. I use the ctakes-ClinicalPipeline project mainly because that is what the developer-install instructions say to use. Do I actually need all those Eclipse projects? More importantly, while I understand the relationship of cTakes to UIMA conceptually, on a practical basis I am having trouble. For example, all the documentation is really UIMA documentation. The UIMA documentation assumes I have UIMA SDK. For example, the instructions for running the CPE Configurator tell me to run a .sh file in the UIMA SDK. Yet, the cTakes developer-install instructions never mention the UIMA SDK. Do I need to install this? And finsally, and I realize this may seem like a stupid question, but if I want to write an application that uses the clinical pipeline and then accesses the jCAS structure to do something additional, would I add my code to the ctakes-ClinicalPipeline project or just start another Eclipse project? Bonnie MacKellar Division of Computer Science, Math and Science St John's University Queens, NY [email protected]
