Lucene for UMLS2014

2014-07-17 Thread Harpreet Khanduja
Hello, I would be grateful if someone could help. I created a lucene index for umls2014 but only for snomed vocabulary. I did this because I thought this would reduce the dictionary look up time. But it still almost the same. Is there any other way to improve the dictionary look up

Re: Type System updates

2014-07-17 Thread John Green
As a clinician Id really like to see the types that Melissa has elicited from physicians. By the by: Id call apgar, or duke, or has bled score, or chads vasc, or childs criteria, or anything else like them risk classifiers or prognosticators or decision models or something like that (the line

Type System updates

2014-07-17 Thread Wu, Stephen T., Ph.D.
The type system needs some updating. Here are some reasons: 1. The refsem and textsem namespaces were created to reflect the Secondary Use Clinical Element Models (CEMs) defined in the SHARP project. However, later modification to those models are not reflected in the cTAKES type system. 2. W

RE: Procedure

2014-07-17 Thread John Green
Wonderful explanation James, thank you! JG — Sent from Mailbox for iPhone On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Masanz, James J. wrote: > The order you mentioned in your previous email had been "pulsatile abdominal > mass" for both what is in UMLS and what was in the text being annotated, > whi

RE: Procedure

2014-07-17 Thread Masanz, James J.
The order you mentioned in your previous email had been "pulsatile abdominal mass" for both what is in UMLS and what was in the text being annotated, which is why I was asking about the ordering. Given that I now know the text you were annotating did have a different word order than what is i

Re: Procedure

2014-07-17 Thread John Green
Hey, thanks!  JG — Sent from Mailbox for iPhone On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Bruce Tietjen wrote: > I believe it wouldn't be picked up because the first word dictionary lookup > algorithm only does lookups by first word as it progresses through the > words in the lookup window. > From the

Re: Procedure

2014-07-17 Thread Bruce Tietjen
I believe it wouldn't be picked up because the first word dictionary lookup algorithm only does lookups by first word as it progresses through the words in the lookup window. >From the lookup window, it would do: pulsatile abdominal mass --> lookup word 'pulsatile' abdominal mass --> lookup word

RE: Procedure

2014-07-17 Thread John Green
I didnt see how it appeared in dictionary, I just looked at the cui in umls, which has it as abdominal pulsatile mass, which isnt the same order as the text I annotated in ctakes (pulsatile abdominal mass); but if im wrong great, it does raise the question even more why if it was in the lookup w

RE: Procedure

2014-07-17 Thread Masanz, James J.
In general cTAKES doesn't pick up things with values, such as weight, height, lab values, temperature, with the exception that the drug ner pipeline can pick up medication related values such as dose, strength, etc. cTAKES does pick up a few things as MeasurementAnnotation just by pattern, but

Re: Procedure

2014-07-17 Thread John Green
General so that I dont keep generating work for others :-) Specifically: Temperature wasnt annotated, neither was Heart rate, for example. different but related: it picked up "abdominal mass" (C734) but not "pulsatile abdominal mass" (C0266835) when given "pulsatile abdominal mass". I underst