Piper Files
to store pipelines containing cTAKES components.
Simple Pipeline Fabricator GUI
to build pipelines from containing cTAKES components and to run pipelines.
- select cTAKES components to include
- view descriptions of the components, and inputs, outputs, parameters, dependencies
- implemented using the new Pipe Bits
Dictionary
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Creator GUI
to build a custom dictionary for the Fast Dictionary Lookup from a local UMLS installation.
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Example Clinical Documents with Manual Annotations
hand-annotated clinical narratives (mock ups). The narratives were annotated using the Anafora annotation tool.
Sentence Detector Alternative
if the default sentence detector is not working well for you, you could try the new character-based sentence detector
Coreference Annotator Alternative
a new, second coreference annotator is now included
Pipe Bits
pipe bits document cTAKES modules - see cTAKES used to describe cTAKES components for tools that help users create pipelines - see Simple Pipeline Fabricator GUI.
- document descriptions of components, and inputs, outputs, parameters, dependencies
- implemented as Java annotations
- simplifies pipeline builders
- indicates whether a component is a Collection Reader, Annotator, or a Cas Consumer (Writer)
Changes
if you've written code that directly uses classes within cTAKES, you could be affected by the following:
- Three If you used any of these three older, lesser-used assertion-related classes were removed from cTAKES to remove a dependency on jars that are not in maven central:
- AssertionAnalysisEngine
- AssertionAnalysisEngineFit
- ConceptConverterAnalysisEngine
- AssertionAnalysisEngine
- AssertionAnalysisEngineFit
- ConceptConverterAnalysisEngine
Class IdentifiedAnnotationUtil was renamed to OntologyConceptUtil