I think it is a great idea. cTAKES end users will really appreciate this.

Murali


On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Chen, Pei <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
> When I first added this Jira, it was intended to optionally save the
> atom/text from the UMLS dictionary. I originally had it in the
> IdentifiedAnnotation, but realized that IdentifiedAnnotation could contain
> and OntologyArray of UmlsConcepts.  So I think we should add preferredText
> in UmlsConcept instead of IdentifiedAnnotation.
> [This will be useful for those would like the UMLS text along with the
> CUI/Code save since it's already available and won't have to do a secondary
> lookup futher downstream]
> What does folks think before I go ahead and make that change-  I was
> thinking of adding to the TypeSystem.xml first (the code hasn't been
> modified to populate it yet).
>
> --Pei
>

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