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Analysis Engines/Pipelines
The analysis engines and collection processing engines shipped with cTAKES for some of the annotators are described in the following table.
Annotator | Description | Example Piper file |
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Clinical Pipeline | The pipeline to obtain concepts and their attributes | <cTAKES_HOME>/TBD |
Chunker | Obtains phrasal chunk annotations | <cTAKES_HOME>/TBD |
Dependency Parser | Obtains dependency parsing tree | <cTAKES_HOME>/TBD |
Drug NER | Finds mentions of medications and medication attributes such as dose, strength, frequency... | <cTAKES_HOME>/TBD |
Dictionary Lookup | Finds mentions of concepts from a dictionary (e.g., SNOMED CT or RxNorm | <cTAKES_HOME>/TBD |
Dictionary Lookup Fast | Finds mentions of concepts from a dictionary (e.g., SNOMED CT or RxNorm | <cTAKES_HOME>/TBD |
Relation Extractor | Finds certain relations (location of and degree of) between certain Event, Entity, and Modifier annotations | <cTAKES_HOME>/TBD |
Smoking Status | Finds document or patient-level smoking status | <cTAKES_HOME>/TBD |
Side Effect | Finds side effect mentions and sentences from clinical documents | <cTAKES_HOME>/TBD |
Next Steps
The cTAKES 4.0 Component Use Guide will help you to understand each of the cTAKES components that have been installed. In some cases you can learn how to improve the components.
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