
Apache cTAKES
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Apache cTAKES<sup>TM</sup> is a natural language processing system for extraction of information from electronic medical record clinical free-text.

Requirements
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Java 1.8 is required to run cTAKES
Maven 3 is required to build cTAKES

A license for the [Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)](https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/index.html) is required to use the named entity recognition module (dictionary lookup) with the default dictionary.

Information can be fond in the wiki concerning:
- Developer installation.
- User installation.
- Running the system and its tools.
- Example pipelines.
- The application programming interface (API).
- Example code.
- Extending the system.
- Incorporating Apache cTAKES<sup>TM</sup> in a maven project.

* Documentation is currently in progress.