Apache cTAKES Pros and Cons

cTakes is Opensource and hence can be used for free. Apart from that the documentation is pretty clear and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would say the UI can be improved but still works like a charm :) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1) open source, so you get nice support.

2) scalable.

3) easy to understand and also intuitive.

4) documentation is clear & crisp. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1) not as popular yet so needs some convincing for the team to adapt this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The most important part of any software program is its documentation.

cTAKES documentation along with its tutorials are well created and presented. Also, demos and examples can be really helpful in getting started. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

NLP system by cTAKES fit a majority of the requirement that we had while implementing it. Not many things to dislike since we were not looking an extensive NLP product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Robust, Fast, Scalable, Modular, Portable and open source Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Should provide more documentation and application demos for helping beginners to onboard easily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Good tutorials and demos make it easy to use. Easy to understand analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Documentation and its design can be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Well, I must say cTAKES documentation is quite good in order to start. Besides that tutorials, and demos altogether make this NLP system complete. Personally, I like it for our accounts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As of now nothing for me. However, I think about the beginners then tutorials need to cover the basics more. I hope this improvement will do from time to time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The diagrams that it represents after the analysis are quite easy to look at and understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Still a lot of text to read, to make a sense out of it, in many cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Accepts plain text or clinical documents in XML documents. Quite intuitive system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Old school design. But that is my personal opinion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

How easy and intuitive it is to use. The interface is very good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It needs to have a better tutorial for beginners and the help tools need to be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.