Ctakes-spring-boot

Deprecated: Use this one instead.

Planning a container optimized rewrite in Quarkus.

Ctakes

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.

How to Use

• STEP 1: Clone this repo and add UMLS username and password in CtakesApplication.java
• STEP 2: Add the pipeline in application properties (FAST is recommended)
• STEP 3: mvn clean install 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 

• STEP 5: mvn spring-boot:run and access the application at
  http://localhost:8080/api?text=papules on the face

• 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

Contributors

• Bell Eapen (McMaster U)
• inspired by this repo.