Its been a little while since I looked at that but I think this is used for identifying overlapping concepts within a certain number of tokens (window) for example: insulin dependent diabetes mellitus insulin dependent diabetes mellitus etc...
Hopefully my recollection is correct and I am not leading you astray. On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Coarr, Matt <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone have a quick description of what the lookup window annotator and > the overlap annotator do? > > I've been looking at the descriptor for LookupWindowAnnotator.xml and its two > subcomponents (which use classes OverlapAnnotator and CopyAnnotator). > > I'm trying to get a better grasp for what they do. > > Thanks! > Matt
