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In order to make it easy to obtain common dictionaries cTAKES maintains a SourceForge project where you can download a file with the following dictionaries:

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To use them, you must have a UMLS username and password, and an Internet connection.

Step

Example

1. Download the dictionary resources.

Go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/ctakesresources/files/ and download the latest ZIP file from the ctakesresources project.

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2. Put the resources in the proper place.

Unzip the files into a temporary location, for example, C:\stuff or /tmp.
Copy the org directory (contents and subdirectories, do not replace) to <cTAKES_HOME>/resources.

Windows:

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copy C:\stuff\ctakes-resources-3.1.0\resources\org C:\apache-ctakes-3.0.0-incubating\resources\org

Linux:

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copy /tmp/ctakes-resources-3.1.0/resources/org /usr/local/apache-ctakes-3.0.0-incubating/resources/org

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3. UMLS user ID and password.

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If you do not have a UMLS username and password, you may request one at UMLS Terminology Services

Warning

How does the user incorporate the ZIP file into what they already have whether it be a developer (Eclipse or command line) or a user.

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If you plan to use the UMLS Resources, set/export env variables
export ctakes.umlsuser=\[username\], ctakes.umlspw=\[password\]
or add the system properties to the java args
\-Dctakes.umlsuser=\[username\] \-Dctakes.umlspw=\[password\]\|

In order to integrate the dictionaries In order to use the UMLS dictionaries shipped with cTAKES you will need to do two things:
(1) Change the UMLSUser and UMLSPW <nameValuePair> strings in these descriptor files with your UMLS username and password.

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