Hi Ben, I can only speak for myself, but I am using cTakes extensively at two major California Universities in multiple projects. The kind of customizations I am doing are mostly specific to the facility and to the project and therefore wouldn't be for inclusion in the source repository. We have just finished using it to extract concepts from 102 million notes
Unless I am wrong, updates are going into the Apache SVN repository and Github has acted as a backup repo. It's true that there isn't a well organized update bugfix & release team and schedule. Others can speak to that too, but I would suspect that part of this is due to the fact that the core is very stable and most modifications and enhancements are, like mine, local to a project. However, there has been talk but not much definitive action on two initiatives - to upgrade to the current version of UIMA and to include the Ruta engine as one of the pluggable components. The user base is fairly substantial for a project this specialized. I suggest you have a look at the presentations at the cTakes thread of the 2020 ApacheCon conference. You'll have to search through this list: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU2OcwpQkYCy_awEe5xwlxGTk5UieA37m By all means, come and join us! Regards, Peter On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 12:24 AM Benjamin hansen <benjaminkakke...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > > I hope its okay i send this mail here - i was not sure where else to pose > my question. > > > We are considering to use cTakes in our applications - however I got > concerned when i saw the lack of activity in the github repository which is > why I want to ask - > > > > Is cTakes still being actively developed and maintained or have developers > gone to develop other systems instead? > > > Is there any kind of up 2 date roadmap for the activity development of > cTakes? > > > What is the cTakes userbase like these days? Is it growing?, dwindling? > stable? non-existent? > > > > > Thanks in advance. >
