Hello, cTAKES developing team, We are using and comparing various NLP tools (including cTAKES) for processing over 5 million clinical notes within Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes. As a part of our comparisons, we are exploring the architecture of the NER and (UMLS) concept linking components of the tools.
I was able to find the description on the cTAKES default/original dictionary look up in the Savova et. al. 2010 paper but I was not able to find a paper or tech report describing the fast UMLS dictionary lookup (Fast UMLS Processor) yet. Any description of the fast dictionary lookup algorithm is highly appreciated. Thank you, Masoud Rouhizadeh ---- Masoud Rouhizadeh, PhD NLP Specialist / Software Engineer Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Center for Clinical Data Analysis School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University http://pages.jh.edu/~mrouhiz1
