cTAKES CORE

Contains code and resources required by all or most other cTAKES modules.

Some of the primary functionality covered in ctakes-core and useful to beginners:

• Read files from disk: FileTreeReader
• Find sections in a document: SimpleSegmentAnnotator, BsvRegexSectionizer
• Find lists in a document: ListAnnotator
• Find paragraphs in a document: ParagraphAnnotator
• Find sentences in a document: SentenceDetector, SentenceDetectorAnnotatorBIO
• Find tokens in a document: TokenizerAnnotator, TokenizerAnnotatorPTB
• Run Python scripts: PythonRunner
• Pip a Python project: PythonPipper
• Write HTML-marked document: HtmlTextWriter, HtmlTextWriter
• Write plain-marked document: PrettyTextWriterFit
• Write all information to XML: FileTreeXmiWriter
• Write annotation information to a table: SemanticTableFileWriter
• Read and run piper files: PiperFileReader, PiperFileRunner
• Build pipelines from code: PipelineBuilder
• Find, create, inspect annotations: util/annotation/
• Create, inspect basic document information: util/doc/
• Create, inspect basic time annotations: CalendarUtil

ctakes-core also contains two piper files that perform basic functions that are frequently used at the beginning of pipelines.

• DefaultTokenizerPipeline.piper
• FullTokenizerPipeline.piper

There are many more utility classes and resources in ctakes-core that are useful to cTAKES developers.