Thank you. That's helpful. The last time I did this years ago, the tool
wasn't available and I just remember downloading some huge files. It's
only mentioned in passing in two Ctakes Wiki pages - and not in association
with the dictionary creator. whereas the resources file, which is
mentioned there has just the pre-built fast lookup.
Peter
On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 2:39 PM Thomas W Loehfelm
<twloehf...@ucdavis.edu.invalid> wrote:
> If you have downloaded and created a local UMLS installation using the
> MetamorphoSys tool you should end up with a directory structure something
> like:
> ../../umls/2020AA/META/{all of the various .RRF files}
>
> In that case, you want to point the DictionaryCreator tool to the 2020AA
> directory, i.e. the one that contains the META directory.
>
> From: Peter Abramowitsch <pabramowit...@gmail.com>
> Reply-To: "dev@ctakes.apache.org" <dev@ctakes.apache.org>
> Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 at 2:17 PM
> To: "dev@ctakes.apache.org" <dev@ctakes.apache.org>
> Subject: obtaining the UMLS set for the dictionary creator
>
> I've been trying to discover what directory the dictionary creator wants
> to see for "UMLS Installation" Although I have the dictionary and lvg
> folders, inside ctakes-4.0-resources-bin.zip I don't see any folder that
> the dictionary creator is happy with.
>
> When I look for RRF files in my running installation, the only ones I see
> are in the ytex folder and they're tiny. Of course the Snomed a-b folder
> is there,
>
> I remember downloading the UMLS back 2014 and creating a dictionary then,
> I cannot find a link to the umls install I need for the dictionary creator
> now?
>
> Can you help?
>
> I've tried every folder from here to the top of the
> ctakes-4.0-resources-bin tree.
>
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