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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:20:21 -0400
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Subject: Re: Ctakes intro.. (boston?)
From: Pei Chen <chenpei@apache.org>
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This sounds very cool... perhaps we can setup a meetup or something
informal for those here in the Boston area.

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Jay Vyas <jayunit100.apache@gmail.com> wro=
te:
> Hi ctakes!
>
> As a bioinformatician and Hadoop ecosystem engineer, I Was really impress=
ed with this project when I stumbled upon it recently, especially the poten=
tial for streamlining several tricky areas medical informatics and correlat=
ion analysis from abstracts, drugs, and patient records.
>
> Was curious if any ctakes folks in the boston area would be interested In=
 a code walk through or presentation,... I'd like to contribute if possible=
, and possibly see how we could use ctakes alongside bigtop for a demo of a=
 medical informatics app.
>
> I'm an apache bigtop commiter and a bioinformatics phd, so would love to =
contribute to bridging  the gap between Hadoop and the biomedical world if =
possible.