Title:     Apache cTAKES - Glossary
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**CDA** - Clinical Document Architecture – an HL7 XML-based standard for clinical documents.

**component** - cTAKES is made up of a number of components, some optional. Some components include a single annotator. Others, such as 'core', include multiple annotators. For example, 'core' includes a sentence detector annotator and a tokenizer annotator.

**cTAKES** - Clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System

**GENIA** - A collection of biomedical literature. It has been compiled and annotated within the scope of the [GENIA project](http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/GENIA/).

**LVG** - One of the NLM's Lexical Tools, used by cTAKES to find the normalized form of words. Refer to the [LVG information on the NLM website](http://lexsrv2.nlm.nih.gov/LexSysGroup/Projects/lvg/current/docs/userDoc/tools/lvg.html).

**Orange Book** - A list from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of FDA-approved prescription drugs, including new and generic drugs. Refer to the [Orange information on the FDA website](http://www.fda.gov/cder/orange/).

**Penn Treebank** - Corpus of naturally-occurring text annotated for linguistic structure. Refer to the [Treebank information on the University of Pennsylvania website](http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~treebank/).

**pipeline** - Refers to one or more cTAKES components configured to process documents.

**RxNORM** - A "standardized nomenclature for clinical drugs," produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Refer to the [RxNORM information on the NLM website](http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/rxnorm/).

**SNOMED** - Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine – Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT®), a comprehensive clinical terminology, originally created by the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and now owned, maintained, and distributed by the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO). [Refer to SNOMED CT](http://www.ihtsdo.org/snomed-ct/). See also [the SNOMED information on the NLM website](http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/Snomed/snomed_main.html).

**UIMA** - Unstructured Information Management Architecture. Refer to the [UMIA information on the Apache website](http://uima.apache.org/index.html).

**UMLS** - U.S. National Library of Medicine's Unified Medical Language System®. Refer to the [UMLS information on the NLM website](http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/).