Hello,
I have a minor bug to report, and a question that may be a part of a major bug.

If I create a custom dictionary with multiple vocabularies and then run cTAKES 
using this custom dictionary, cTAKES will sometimes replace the vocabulary name 
with the name of the custom dictionary. An example is shown in the attached 
image1.png that was run on the MIMIC dataset. I noticed that if I looked up the 
CUI C1548802 in the UMLS Metathesaurus Browser that had the incorrect 
vocabulary name inserted, it had ‘NOCODE’ for the code. This only seemed to 
occur with CUIs from the MTH vocabulary. Is this something that can be fixed 
within cTAKES?

The question and maybe major bug was we ran the same dataset (50 MIMIC notes) 
twice: once on the custom dictionary with multiple vocabularies described in 
the attached image1.png, and then using a custom dictionary that only included 
the snomed vocabulary. Next, we filtered the output from the multiple 
vocabulary dictionary to only include CUIs that were reported by snomed. The 
two outputs from cTAKES should have produced the same CUIs, but as can be seen 
in the attached Venn Diagrams, some of the CUIs reported by cTAKES running the 
snomed-only dictionary were not reported by cTAKES running the multiple 
vocabulary dictionary. Do you know why the two outputs would be different?

We’re running user installation of cTAKES 4.0.0.1 via

./bin/runPiperFile.sh -p path/to/piperfile -l path/to/custom_dict.xml -i 
inputDir --xmiOut outputDir

And then extracting the CUIs from the output XMI files.

Please let me know if I should report this as an issue on the new GitHub 
repository instead of via email.

Thanks!

John Caskey

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