[CTAKES-188] GSoC: Create an interface for cTAKES

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Implemented
• Affects Version/s: 3.0-incubating
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0
• Component/s: ctakes-gui
• Assignee: Sean Finan
• Reporter: Pei Chen
• Created: 11/Apr/13 14:15
• Updated: 25/Dec/18 17:25
• Resolved: 25/Dec/18 17:25

Description

cTAKES currently is built on top of the UIMA Framework. The learning curve in adopting and using cTAKES is steep and could be overwhelming to a new user.

I am proposing to create an interface, either and/or a CLI or a GUI that shields the user from having to understand the complexities with UIMA, Annotators, jCAS, etc.
This would potentially require

• Refactoring of the public cTAKES API's.
• Creating a REST/SOAP and/or CLI interface
  To perform the most common use cases:
• Read in plaintext medical documents
• Run a default pipeline
• Have a standard mechanism to extract the cTAKES output