svn commit: r1417221 - /incubator/ctakes/site/trunk/content/ctakes/index.mdtext

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Author: chenpei
Date: Tue Dec  4 22:12:32 2012
New Revision: 1417221

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1417221&view=rev
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CMS commit to ctakes by chenpei

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    incubator/ctakes/site/trunk/content/ctakes/index.mdtext

Modified: incubator/ctakes/site/trunk/content/ctakes/index.mdtext
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/ctakes/site/trunk/content/ctakes/index.mdtext?rev=1417221&r1=1417220&r2=1417221&view=diff
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-# Welcome to Apache cTAKES (incubating).
+# Welcome to Apache cTAKES (incubating)
 Apache clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES) is an open-source natural language processing system for information extraction from electronic medical record clinical free-text. It processes clinical notes, identifying types of clinical named entities from various dictionaries including the Unified Medical Language System ([UMLS](http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/)) - medications, diseases/disorders, signs/symptoms, anatomical sites and procedures. Each named entity has attributes for the text span, the ontology mapping code, subject (patient, family member, etc.) and context (negated/not negated, conditional, generic, degree of certainty). Some of the attributes are expressed as relations, for example the location of a clinical condition (locationOf relation) or the severity of a clinical condition (degreeOf relation). 
 
 Apache cTAKES was built using the Apache UIMA Unstructured Information Management Architecture engineering framework and Apache OpenNLP natural language processing toolkit. Its components are specifically trained for the clinical domain out of diverse manually annotated datasets, and create rich linguistic and semantic annotations that can be utilized by clinical decision support systems and clinical research. cTAKES has been used in a variety of use cases in the domain of biomedicine such as phenotype discovery, translational science, pharmacogenomics and pharmacogenetics.
 
-Apache cTAKES employs a number of rule-based and machine learning methods. Apache cTAKES employs a number of rule-based and machine learning methods. Apache cTAKES [components](components.html) include:
+Apache cTAKES employs a number of rule-based and machine learning methods. Apache cTAKES [components](components.html) include:
  
    1. Sentence boundary detection
    1. Tokenization (rule-based)