Hi Pei, Thanks for your reply, Yes i meant that DrugAggregatePlaintextUMLSProcessor return more concepts, or the opposite AggregatePlaintextUMLSProcessor returns the usual concepts + the MedicationEventMentions. I don't think it is hard to implement, as i think the dictionary lookup code won't change.
I tried to merge the drug lookup in the lookupDB and add the drug annotator in the normal pipe line, but of course things are not that simple :) I don't fully understand how the dictionary look up works, otherwise i could do it. Maybe if you have sometime, you can guide me a little and i can go from there. Thanks, Shady On Feb 4, 2013, at 6:58 PM, "Chen, Pei" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
