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| 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. |
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| Requirements |
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| Java 1.8 is required to run cTAKES |
| Maven 3 is required to build cTAKES |
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| 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. |
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| Information can be found in the [wiki](https://github.com/apache/ctakes/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. |
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| * Documentation is currently in progress. |
