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From: Damir Olejar <olejar.damir@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 10:56:26 -0400
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Subject: Re: Exploiting the power of cTakes, using OpenNLP only
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Thank you Guergana, this does help a lot, and it will be a valuable
information for the people I work for, while integrating cTakes.

Damir

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 8:04 AM, Savova, Guergana <
Guergana.Savova@childrens.harvard.edu> wrote:

> Yes, you are correct. cTAKES does named entity recognition and
> normalization=3Dmapping to an ontology (through the UMLS). The normalizat=
ion
> part is what is different from what is usually done in the general domain
> (where mentions of several semantic types are discovered but not
> necessarily normalized to a concept within an ontology). In the general
> domain, there is a recent trend to normalize to Wikipedia (wikification).
>
> In short, to do the NER in cTAKES you do need a license for the UMLS. BTW=
,
> that license is free for level 0 vocabularies.
>
> Hope this information helps.
> --Guergana
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Damir Olejar [mailto:olejar.damir@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 7:51 AM
> To: dev@ctakes.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Exploiting the power of cTakes, using OpenNLP only
>
> To answer my own question, it all comes down to UMLS licensing, and which
> files are being downloaded from the server.
> The files that are downloaded are compressed *.model files that can be
> integrated with cTakes.
> However, there is (or might be in the near future) a restriction to which
> user can download which files, and also, there might be a copyright issue
> if the UMLS procedure is not followed.
>
> So, yes, there is no need for UIMA, but then, for any serious work, the
> copyrights need to be respected.
>
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Damir Olejar <olejar.damir@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > To whom it may concern,
> >
> > First, I would like to apologize if my question is vague, since I am
> > new and unaccustomed to the cTakes diction. To keep my question simple
> > and up to a point, let us assume that I am working only with an Apache
> > OpenNLP. I do not have any UIMA-specific JAR files included, and let
> > us assume that I do not want to include any of them (or keep it to a
> > minimum), thus keeping the project confined to OpenNLP as much as
> possible.
> >
> > As far as I know, UIMA is just a framework that does not provide any
> > specific NLP tools (source:
> >
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=3Dhttp-3A__stackoverflow.com_q=
uestions_24186742_is-2Duima-2Dprovides-2Donly-2Da-2Dwrapper-2Dor-2Dis-2Dit-=
2Dlike-2Dstandfordcore-2Dnlp-2Dand-2Dgate&d=3DBQIFaQ&c=3DqS4goWBT7poplM69zy=
_3xhKwEW14JZMSdioCoppxeFU&r=3DSeLHlpmrGNnJ9mI2WCgf_wwQk9zL4aIrVmfBoSi-j0kfE=
crO4yRGmRCJNAr-rCmP&m=3DumFvmAvfVN2FIHuugFp5H33UdNyy-mxG3U3yDPRMp9I&s=3DuM0=
wOUdg63NBJRXD3JRZeU0fx-jT8ide6bcZdx_-WY8&e=3D
> ).
> > This means that there should be a way of integrating the cTakes
> > components with OpenNLP.
> >
> > What I would like to do is to simply have the Name Entity Recognition
> > (NER) applied to a text, so I know which word from an inputted
> > sentence is a medical term.  The perfect option would be if I could
> > have a *.bin file such as "en-ner-person.bin=E2=80=9D, but I think that=
 cTakes
> > does not give us such an option, since there are no *.bin files.
> >
> > How would I accomplish such a task? Would there be any code, examples,
> > tutorials, documentations, pseudo-code, ideas ,=E2=80=A6 to take a look=
 at?
> >
> > Thank you kindly for your time, understanding, and a patience.
> >
> > Damir
> >
>

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