<s>
Apache	B-Application
cTAKES	I-Application
:	O
clinical	O
Text	O
Analysis	O
and	O
Knowledge	O
Extraction	O
System	O
is	O
an	O
open-source	O
Natural	B-Language
Language	I-Language
Processing	I-Language
(	O
NLP	B-Language
)	O
system	O
that	O
extracts	O
clinical	O
information	O
from	O
electronic	B-Application
health	I-Application
record	I-Application
unstructured	B-Application
text	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
cTAKES	B-Application
was	O
built	O
using	O
the	O
UIMA	B-Application
Unstructured	I-Application
Information	I-Application
Management	I-Application
Architecture	I-Application
framework	I-Application
and	O
OpenNLP	B-Language
natural	B-Language
language	I-Language
processing	I-Language
toolkit	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Components	O
of	O
cTAKES	B-Application
are	O
specifically	O
trained	O
for	O
the	O
clinical	O
domain	O
,	O
and	O
create	O
rich	O
linguistic	O
and	O
semantic	O
annotations	O
that	O
can	O
be	O
utilized	O
by	O
clinical	O
decision	O
support	O
systems	O
and	O
clinical	O
research	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Development	O
of	O
cTAKES	B-Application
began	O
at	O
the	O
Mayo	O
Clinic	O
in	O
2006	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
After	O
its	O
deployment	O
,	O
cTAKES	B-Application
became	O
an	O
integral	O
part	O
of	O
Mayo	O
's	O
clinical	O
data	O
management	O
infrastructure	O
,	O
processing	O
more	O
than	O
80	O
million	O
clinical	O
notes	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Such	O
collaborations	O
have	O
extended	O
cTAKES	B-Application
 '	O
capabilities	O
into	O
other	O
areas	O
such	O
as	O
Temporal	O
Reasoning	O
,	O
Clinical	O
Question	O
Answering	O
,	O
and	O
coreference	O
resolution	O
for	O
the	O
clinical	O
domain	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2010	O
,	O
cTAKES	B-Application
was	O
adopted	O
by	O
the	O
program	O
and	O
is	O
a	O
central	O
component	O
of	O
the	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2013	O
,	O
cTAKES	B-Application
released	O
their	O
first	O
release	O
as	O
an	O
Apache	O
incubator	O
project	O
:	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
March	O
2013	O
,	O
cTAKES	B-Application
became	O
an	O
Apache	O
Top	O
Level	O
Project	O
(	O
TLP	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
