This mapping sounds very interesting and has potential usage for other 
projects. I will be curious to follow its progress. Thank you, Deepal, for 
digging this!

Best,
Chen

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On Dec 30, 2012, at 6:43 AM, "Deepal Dhariwal" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Pei,
> 
> I am aiming for an annotator that provides mapping between UMLS CUI's and
> ontology classes. If I could write a generic code that provides mapping
> between cTakes results and any ontology then it might be useful to the
> community.
> Let me know your views on this annotator.
> 
> Thanks
> Deepal Dhariwal
> 
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Chen, Pei
> <[email protected]>wrote:
> 
>> Hi Deepal,
>> If I understand correctly, you were planning to have an annotator  that
>> iterates through all of the UMLS CUI's identified by cTAKES and then map
>> them to the heartfaid ontology class/code.
>> I am not aware of anything that does specifically this, but there is an
>> open ticket that is trying to do something similar for Drugs classes
>> (RxNorm to NDF-RT mapping) (
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CTAKES-107).
>> It does seem like something that may be useful for others if you would
>> like to contribute that to the community though...
>> 
>> --Pei
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Deepal Dhariwal [mailto:[email protected]]
>>> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 10:28 PM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Cc: [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: Information Extraction using ontology
>>> 
>>> Hello Pei,
>>> 
>>> The dictionary is an ontology i.e. a .owl file (Reference:
>>> http://lis.irb.hr/heartfaid/ontology/) . I am not sure whether it is
>> subset of
>>> UMLS but its definitely based on UMLS since they have relations such as
>>> 'UMLS Synonym'
>>> An example of mapping terms would be:
>>> 1. UMLS lookup annotator returns 'Hypertension' as medical concept.I want
>>> to assert that it corresponds to Hypertension class on this ontology
>> whose
>>> parent is Blood Pressure and relations include TreatedBy, Could Include
>> etc.
>>> 
>>> Hence I want to build a annotator that provides mapping between ctakes
>>> annotator results and owl classes. Does the dictionary lookup component
>>> allow to plug in dictionaries in .owl or .rdf format?
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> Deepal Dhariwal
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Chen, Pei
>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Deepal,
>>>> Within the dictionary lookup component, you can also plugin other
>>>> custom dictionaries in additional to the UMLS ones.
>>>> The dictionary itself can be in different formats (MySQL, HSQLDB,
>>>> Lucene, CSV text file) and could be configured via the xml files.
>>>> Is this what you were referring to?  Do you have an example of
>>>> "mapping terms to the corresponding classes?"
>>>> Just curious, Is the heart ontology a subset of UMLS?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> --Pei
>>>> 
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Deepal Dhariwal [mailto:[email protected]]
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 12:17 AM
>>>>> To: [email protected];
>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>> Subject: Information Extraction using ontology
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have a heart ontology and I want to extract terms from a clinical
>>>>> text
>>>> that
>>>>> correspond to classes in the ontology. cTAKES UMLS Lookup Annotator
>>>>> returns UMLS terms from a given piece of text. Could I modify the
>>>> annotator
>>>>> to extract terms from the ontology and is there is some other
>>>>> component
>>>> of
>>>>> cTAKES that would allow me to do so. I am trying to set up a cTakes
>>>> pipeline
>>>>> where I first extract medical terms from text using UMLS lookup then
>>>> filter
>>>>> cardio vascular terms and identify relations between them using an
>>>> ontology.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Deepal Dhariwal
>>>> 
>> 

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