Hi Shady, Just wanted to confirm: Did you mean that the DrugAggregatePlaintextUMLSProcessor identifies the same drugs, but just with more attributes (i.e. dosage, frequency, etc.)? Or did you mean that the DrugAggregatePlaintextUMLSProcessor actually returned more UMLSConcepts (MedicationEventMentions) the regular AggregatePlaintextUMLSProcessor?
For the former, there is an outstanding Jira item to combine the 2 (reusing the existing lookup entries- rather than a second lookup): https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CTAKES-20 > -----Original Message----- > From: Shady Hussein [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 5:47 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Combining Drug and Concept annotations > > Dear All, > I discovered that cTAKES doesn't recognize all the medical entities as > concepts. There is a difference between using the normal UMLS dictionary in > "/cdpdesc/analysis_engine/AggregatePlaintextUMLSProcessor.xml" and > "/drugnerdesc/analysis_engine/DrugAggregatePlaintextUMLSProcessor.xml > ". The later can detect all the drugs, while the first can't. > > My question now is how to combine between both of those dictionaries. So i > can detect all the drugs and concepts mentioned in the text. I would be > grateful if somebody can help me :) > > -- > Thanks and best Regards, > > Shady AbdelAziz
