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YTEX is currently in a branch in the current cTAKES trunk (as of 1-May-2014) (https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ctakes/branches/ytex/trunk) and will be merged into trunk and included in cTAKES 3.2.  YTEX is included in the cTAKES installation.  This document describes additional installation steps required to take advantage of the following YTEX features:

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If you want to install the UMLS in your SQL Server, you may want to use a different database/schema from the YTEX database. If that is the case, you need permissions on the UMLS database/schema as well.

Installation

0) Build

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cTAKES Trunk

All of ytex has been moved into ctakes, it is currently in a branch trunk (https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ctakes/branches/ytextrunk). You must build a ctakes distribution (that includes ytex).

• Open a command prompt
• Ensure that maven, svn, and the JDK 1.7 (64-bit version) are in your PATH variable
• cd to some directory where you want to check stuff out (I like c:\temp)
• run the following commands

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Download and unzip ctakes-ytex-lib-3.1.2-SNAPSHOT.zip 'over' your installation. This contains non-APACHE 2.0 license compliant libraries:

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• If you have not done so already, obtain a UMLS License and create a UMLS Technology Services (UTS) Account, available free of charge: https://uts.nlm.nih.gov/home.html

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