GSoC: Create an interface for cTAKES

cTAKES currently is built on top of the UIMA Framework. The learning curve in adopting and using cTAKES is steep and could be overwhelming to a new user.

I am proposing to create an interface, either and/or a CLI or a GUI that shields the user from having to understand the complexities with UIMA, Annotators, jCAS, etc.
This would potentially require

• Refactoring of the public cTAKES API's.
• Creating a REST/SOAP and/or CLI interface
  To perform the most common use cases:
• Read in plaintext medical documents
• Run a default pipeline
• Have a standard mechanism to extract the cTAKES output