Thanks. I had actually read through that chain right before posting. It doesn’t address my question on whether I need the UIMA SDK. I think that is where I am most confused. I am looking at the ctakes-examples project right now. Is that similar to your set up? Is it a good model to follow?
Bonnie MacKellar Division of Computer Science, Math and Science St John's University Queens, NY [email protected] From: Jeff Headley [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, July 24, 2015 11:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: do I need the UIMA SDK? I am new to cTAKES as well and working on calling out to cTAKES from a Java application. The advice I have seen here suggests adding cTAKES to your classpath. So <ctakes_home>/lib, <ctakes_home>/desc, and <ctakes_home>/resources on your classpath in your java project. Look at http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ctakes-user/201506.mbox/browser and the June thread in the users mailing list called "Running cTAKES through Java". I found Lance's reply in that thread to be very helpful. Jeff On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 7:17 PM, Bonnie MacKellar <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: 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]<mailto:[email protected]>
