+1 to Andy's suggestion. Ease of initiation + community engagement =
positive growth.


On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Miller, Timothy <
timothy.mil...@childrens.harvard.edu> wrote:

> I think this is also an area where Maven integration was a small step
> backwards (I greatly appreciate the steps forward it allowed). I used to
> run stuff from the command line and in scripts more often but it's slightly
> less straightforward setting up the classpath with maven -- before you
> could put a simple java -cp lib/*.jar <class name> in a script, now I'm not
> sure how to go about it using maven. I'm sure there's a way, but I am
> afraid of falling down the maven rabbit hole.
> Tim
>
>
> On Oct 29, 2013, at 5:53 PM, Chen, Pei wrote:
>
> > +1
> > Pan, the short answer is yes- it can be done in CLI.
> > The problem is that most of us who are already familiar with the nitty
> gritty are probably doing this with some sort of custom scripts or solution.
> > Cc' the dev group to get a fresh perspective; not sure what the easiest
> would be-- run the CPE via command line with default input/output
> directories or running a Driver Main Class as part of examples.
> >
> > --Pei
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Andrew McMurry [mailto:mcmurry.a...@gmail.com]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 5:41 PM
> >> To: dev@ctakes.apache.org
> >> Cc: Pan Teng; and...@apache.org
> >> Subject: Re: cTAKES user interface
> >>
> >> In my opinion, this user request is totally reasonable.
> >>
> >> Download time aside, it should take NO LONGER THAN 15 MINUTES to get
> >> started with cTakes.
> >> True, cTakes is massively powerful and UMLS is a license headache.
> >> Nonetheless!
> >>
> >> This keeps coming up, we should strongly consider an improved VM
> >> distribution option so folks can get online with "copy-paste" text ready
> >> applications on their local machine.
> >>
> >> IT WOULD BE A GAME CHANGER IN A GOOD WAY
> >>
> >> I'm strongly considering making an Ubuntu 13.10 cTakes distribution for
> my
> >> own work, would others want this as well?
> >> http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
> >>
> >> Yes I know thats a tall order, but its true ! :)
> >>
> >> We dont have to provide the full UMLS instance, just the non-commercial
> >> dictionaries.
> >> Just get new users "hooked on cTakes" with ICD9 diagnoses, procedures,
> >> medications annotations.
> >>
> >> How do the other committers feel about this?
> >>
> >> PS: I'm back and with more vigor++
> >>
> >> On Oct 29, 2013, at 2:02 PM, "Chen, Pei" <
> pei.c...@childrens.harvard.edu>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Pan,
> >>> Fwd'ing to dev@
> >>>
> >>> From: Pan Teng [mailto:teng...@udel.edu]
> >>> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 4:37 PM
> >>> To: user-ow...@ctakes.apache.org
> >>> Subject: Fwd: cTAKES user interface
> >>>
> >>> Hi there,
> >>> I'm trying to explore the cTAKES system. Just curious whether there is
> an
> >> way that I can use cTAKES system just in the terminal window by typing
> some
> >> command line including input and then the output data can be generated?
> >> Your kindly reply will be appreciated.
> >>> Best,
> >>> Pan
> >>>
> >>>
> >
>
>

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