Apache cTAKES™ is a natural language processing system for extraction of information from electronic medical record clinical free-text. This packages cTakes as a spring boot application providing REST api. Hazelcast caching is added.
- STEP 1: Add UMLS username and password in CtakesApplication.java
- STEP 2: Add the pipeline in application properties (FAST is recommended)
- STEP 3: mvn spring-boot:repackage
- STEP 4: Follow steps below so that the org folder is inside 'classes')
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/ctakesresources/files/ctakes-resources-4.0-bin.zip
unzip ctakes-resources-4.0-bin.zip
cp -r resources/org/ target/classes
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STEP 5: mvn spring-boot:run and access the application at http://localhost:8080/api?text=papules on the face
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STEP 6 (If you select DEFAULT in STEP 2): Copy the LookupDesc_Db.xml file in the doc folder to target / classes / org / apache / ctakes / dictionary / lookup / LookupDesc_Db.xml
- Bell Eapen (McMaster U)
- inspired by this repo.