RE: New to CTAKES [SUSPICIOUS]

["Savova, Guergana" <Gu...@childrens.harvard.edu>]

As Sean mentioned, we the NLP lab at Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School will be dedicating significant effort in the next several months (=FTE) to make a solid release happen asap. We expect the release within 3 months. As Sean mentioned help from the broader cTAKES community is welcome.
Thank you!
--Guergana

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-----Original Message-----
From: Finan, Sean [mailto:Sean.Finan@childrens.harvard.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 12:54 PM
To: dev@ctakes.apache.org
Subject: RE: New to CTAKES [SUSPICIOUS]

> 3.2.3 is still considered a snapshot - do you have any feeling when/if it will be released?

Good question.

One person has volunteered to be a release manager and we at the Boston Children's Hospital nlp group are trying to get some additional hands on the task.  There are still outstanding bugs.  Ctakes-core is undergoing some changes and should be tested before release.  I think that the state is good, but in my opinion the whole app needs to have some end-to-end testing before a major release.  At a recent hackathon, 50% of those present could not by themselves get ctakes installed and running even with written instructions.  In my mind a release that is not usable is not a release at all, so I think that we need to devote a little effort to usability.  Again, that is just my opinion.  I have put in time over the past few months to work on making ctakes easier for newcomers and non-developers.  As you noticed, a fair amount of online documentation is stale, and it would be great if people volunteered to update it before a release.  After that there are just the matters of updating the main website links, publicizing the release, release notes, and a parade with balloons.

It think that everybody out there would be happy if there was a new official, stable and useable release.  I also think that we can get one of good quality together within the next 3 months - more quickly if there are volunteers from the community.

Sean


-----Original Message-----
From: Dunlop, Joyce (HP) [mailto:Joyce.Dunlop@va.gov] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 12:32 PM
To: dev@ctakes.apache.org
Subject: RE: New to CTAKES 

Thanks Sean,

3.2.3 is still considered a snapshot - do you have any feeling when/if it will be released?

Thanks,
Joyce

-----Original Message-----
From: Finan, Sean [mailto:Sean.Finan@childrens.harvard.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 10:57 AM
To: dev@ctakes.apache.org
Subject: [EXTERNAL] RE: New to CTAKES 

Hi Joyce,

If you are building from source then you should not need to manually download the resources.  Maven should be doing it for you.  Well, that is the behavior of 3.2.3 ... I honestly cannot remember what 3.2.2 did ...

Otherwise, I think that if the latest was the 3.2.1.1 then that is probably the most appropriate for the 3.2.2 release if you want all of the resources.

As for building and deploying ytex, I don't have any advice.  Perhaps some ytex power-user out there can help.

Sean

-----Original Message-----
From: Dunlop, Joyce (HP) [mailto:Joyce.Dunlop@va.gov] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 11:25 AM
To: dev@ctakes.apache.org
Cc: Dorner, Andrew J. (PSI); Rustrian, Armando (Liberty ITS)
Subject: New to CTAKES 

Good Morning,

I am trying to set up a development environment using the source release of 3.2.2.

Reading though the documentation on

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__cwiki.apache.org_confluence_display_CTAKES_cTAKES-2B3.2-2BDeveloper-2BInstall-2BGuide&d=DwIFAg&c=qS4goWBT7poplM69zy_3xhKwEW14JZMSdioCoppxeFU&r=fs67GvlGZstTpyIisCYNYmQCP6r0bcpKGd4f7d4gTao&m=yBXENVQKpWjVraf6Zf7uY5l9LJxxrRiiE-yjyFID6d8&s=iqpkHc0kT5mucNnxYyc1mczXXlbmSVJlX-8dxeJvp2o&e= .

Merge the version-matching resources ZIP file from https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__sourceforge.net_projects_ctakesresources_files_&d=DwIFAg&c=qS4goWBT7poplM69zy_3xhKwEW14JZMSdioCoppxeFU&r=fs67GvlGZstTpyIisCYNYmQCP6r0bcpKGd4f7d4gTao&m=yBXENVQKpWjVraf6Zf7uY5l9LJxxrRiiE-yjyFID6d8&s=wPUG8d9qpl_kQBPP5xI9y84mwMEXfaB2cdbkHvWaa0Y&e=  into your ctakes-dictionary-lookup-res project.

ctakes-resources-3.2.1.1-bin.zip<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sourceforge.net_projects_ctakesresources_files_ctakes-2Dresources-2D3.2.1.1-2Dbin.zip_download&d=DwIFAg&c=qS4goWBT7poplM69zy_3xhKwEW14JZMSdioCoppxeFU&r=fs67GvlGZstTpyIisCYNYmQCP6r0bcpKGd4f7d4gTao&m=yBXENVQKpWjVraf6Zf7uY5l9LJxxrRiiE-yjyFID6d8&s=pErHE2p1qFyPeMACLDvshPiTpNZXM847MgGESOtvyuU&e= > is available for download.  Is there a 3.2.2 version of the resources?

After reading some of the posts from the email box, and reading the documentation on the site above.  It looks like the documentation may be somewhat dated and not fulling integrated for YTEX.

Would you have any recommendations in advance on how to set up a build process for deployment and YTEX database from scratch?

Thanks,
Joyce