RE: cTAKES user interface

2013-10-29 Thread Chen, Pei
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

Re: cTAKES user interface

2013-10-29 Thread Andrew McMurry
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 di

RE: cTAKES user interface

2013-10-29 Thread Chen, Pei
+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

Re: cTAKES user interface

2013-10-29 Thread Miller, Timothy
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

Re: cTAKES user interface

2013-10-29 Thread Britt Fitch
+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 step

Re: cTAKES user interface

2013-10-29 Thread Richard Eckart de Castilho
Maven allows to do marvelous things on the CLI, provided you throw in an additional component: Groovy. We did some amazing self-contained Groovy scripts with uimaFIT and DKPro Core which you might find interesting http://code.google.com/p/dkpro-core-asl/wiki/DKProGroovyCookbook -- Richard O

Re: cTAKES user interface

2013-10-29 Thread andy mcmurry
Ricard: Groovy idea. Virtual Machine could benefit from that as well. *## IMHO: These are parallel tasks that I think are higher priority than new features. *It isn't as glamorous as playing Jeopardy, but deploy issues are keeping users out -- if I were to guess A LOT of the potential user base l

RE: cTAKES user interface

2013-10-29 Thread William Karl Thompson
Hi Tim, I've had a related issue, where I wanted all of the resources and libraries for a cTAKES application bundled into a single jar file. The Maven solution that works for me is to add the following to your pom's plugins section: maven

RE: cTAKES user interface

2013-10-29 Thread William Karl Thompson
Nice! +1 for Groovy. It's like being able to program in Python again. -Original Message- From: Richard Eckart de Castilho [mailto:r...@apache.org] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 5:49 PM To: dev@ctakes.apache.org Subject: Re: cTAKES user interface Maven allows to do marvelous things on

Re: cTAKES user interface

2013-10-29 Thread Miller, Timothy
Thanks William and Richard, those are both really excellent pointers. Tim On 10/29/2013 07:58 PM, William Karl Thompson wrote: > Nice! > > +1 for Groovy. It's like being able to program in Python again. > > -Original Message- > From: Richard Eckart de Castilho [mailto:r...@apache.org] >