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These instructions will cover installation and a test of the main product including trained models for sentence detection and tagging parts of speech, dictionaries from a subset of the UMLS, a very small subset of the full LVG resource, etc. Optional components will also be describedare described in the Component Use Guide.

Once you have finished installation of installing cTAKES, you will be able to see what cTAKES is capable of. Further exploitation of the software's ability may require following a few additional steps involving what dictionaries are being used. These are the last steps in these instructionsThe last section on this page covers these next steps.

Prerequisites

Step

Example

1. Make sure you have Java 1.6 or higher. Most systems come with Java already installed.

Run this command to check your version.

Windows and Linux:

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java -version

Windows:

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C:\>java -version
java version "1.6.0_20"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_20-b02)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 16.3-b01, mixed mode, sharing)


Linux:

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tbleeker@system:/$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_22"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.10.1) (6b22-1.10.1-0ubuntu1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.0-b11, mixed mode)

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