Thank you for these insights Peter. Your project sounds very interesting. Are you using the uima pipeline on a cluster to process that many notes? And how long does it take?
I have been considering to use uimafit+ctakes together with apache spark for distributed computations. I saw a video from Philip Ogren from 2014 describing this - but unfortunately he does not give any details on how he did this. Would you by any chance know where i can find more information about how to achieve this? Best regards On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 6:21 PM Peter Abramowitsch <pabramowit...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > >
