Code Modules

Apache cTAKES has a collection of different code modules, each handling different aspects of clinical NLP.

Below is a list of cTAKES code modules. Click on the Module Name to learn more about it.

Module Name	Purpose or Description
ctakes-assertion	Determines mention real-world status, such as negated, uncertain or used in a generic way.
ctakes-assertion-zoner
ctakes-chunker	Identifies multi-token chunks, such as noun phrases and verb phrases.
ctakes-clinical-pipeline	A piper file with a pipeline for commonly desired information. Deprecated.
ctakes-constituency-parser	Adds terminal treebank nodes, required for coreferences.
ctakes-context-tokenizer	Creates special token types such as dates and fractions.
ctakes-core	Code and resources required by all or most other cTAKES modules.
ctakes-coreference	Identifies mentions that refer to the same real-world entity.
ctakes-dependency-parser	Finds dependencies between words.
ctakes-dictionary-lookup	Finds entries of text provided in dictionaries. Deprecated.
ctakes-dictionary-lookup-fast	Identifies terms in text and normalizes them to codes in an ontology.
ctakes-distribution	Builds a binary installation of the cTAKES application.
ctakes-dockhand	Small Installation tool.
ctakes-drug-ner	Identifies attributes of drug mentions. Deprecated.
ctakes-examples	Examples of code, resources, and piper files.
ctakes-fhir	Read and Writes basic FHIR R2 files.
ctakes-gui	Code used for cTAKES GUI tools.
ctakes-lvg	Creates lexical variants. Deprecated.
ctakes-mastif-zoner
ctakes-ne-contexts	Provides a mechanism for examining the context of existing annotations.
ctakes-pbj	A Python Bridge to Java.
ctakes-pos-tagger	A UIMA wrapper around the popular OpenNLP part-of-speech tagger.
ctakes-preprocessor	A usable CDA sectionizer. Deprecated.
ctakes-regression-test	Old tests. Deprecated.
ctakes-relation-extractor	Identifies relations between certain events, entities, and modifiers.
ctakes-side-effect	Extracts physician-asserted drug side effects.
ctakes-smoking-status	Identifies patient smoking status.
ctakes-template-filler	Copy attributes from one annotation to another. Deprecated.
ctakes-temporal	Identifies events, temporal expressions, and their relations on a timeline.
ctakes-tiny-rest	Tiny example rest service.
ctakes-type-system	Represents common clinical elements, document elements, and stsandard NLP elements.
ctakes-utils	Utilities for old code. Deprecated.
ctakes-web-rest	Builds a standalone product, Apache cTaKES Web REST.
ctakes-ytex	Alternatives for some basic annotators. Deprecated.
ctakes-ytex-uima	Alternatives for some basic annotators. Deprecated.
ctakes-ytex-web	Simple Web application for basic NLP tasks. Deprecated.