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cTAKES 4.0 Links

Apache cTAKES download site

Documentation:

These are instructions for installation of cTAKES for developers. With these instructions you can set up your development environment with cTAKES code so you can compile the code and change or extend it. If you simply want to be a user of the software, refer to the cTAKES 4.0 User Install Guide DRAFT.

These install instructions do not supply knowledge of what the cTAKES components do. That is found in the cTAKES 4.0 Component Use Guide.

The step by step instructions for Eclipse assume a Windows or Ubuntu Linux install environment. You will need to extrapolate for any other environments.

Eclipse minimal install instructions

Prerequisites: Java JDK 1.7+, Eclipse IDE 4.2+, subversive plugin (or svn equivalent with appropriate SVN team provider connectors), m2e plugin (or mvn equivalent)

The following location is the main trunk of cTAKES. See https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ctakes/ for branches and tags.

  • Import Project > Maven > Checkout Maven Project from SCM 
    • use: svn and https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ctakes/trunk
    • Select the option to Check out Head Revision.
    • Select the option to Check out All Projects.
  • Wait until Eclipse downloads and builds all of your projects (it may take up to 30 minutes or more depending on your internet connection and your hardware).
    • The various build helpers should run jcasgen and build the projects for you. There should not be any reason to run mvn install, etc.
  • Merge the version-matching resources ZIP file from http://sourceforge.net/projects/ctakesresources/files/ into your ctakes-dictionary-lookup-res project.
  • (Optional) If you would like to launch the UIMA CVD or CPE GUI, run ctakes-clinical-pipeline/resources/launch/UIMA_<CVD | CPE>GUI--clinical_documents pipeline.launch
  • (Optional) UIMA plug-ins called "UIMA Eclipse tooling and runtime support" can be installed from update site: http://www.apache.org/dist/uima/eclipse-update-site 

Eclipse step by step install instructions

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  • Recommend choosing "Eclipse IDE for Java Developers" package when downloading Eclipse
  • The subversive maven m2e plugin recommended in the 3.0 install guide is no longer maintained and difficult to obtain. Subclipse can be used in its place. Instead of steps 2, 3 and 5 under "Preparing Eclipse", install subclipse and the subclipse m2e plugin. To do this, go to Help -> Install New Software... then click the Add... button to add a new repository. Set name to Subclipse and location to http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.12.x Click OK, then check the box next to Subclipse to select subclipse and all of its components, click Next and click through the license agreements until Subclipse installs. Click Yes to restart Eclipse when the install completes.  Next, repeat the preceding process, except when you add the repository set name to Subclipse - m2e plugin and location to http://subclipse.tigris.org/m2eclipse/latest/ and check the box next to Maven Integration for Subclipse
  • If you chose the "Eclipse IDE for Java Developers" package when downloading Eclipse, then m2e is already installed and you can skip step 4 under "Preparing Eclipse"
  • Maven now automatically downloads the necessary dictionary and model resources and includes them on the classpath, so you can skip steps 3-6 of "Compile a release in Eclipse"
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