Hi Chase,

I just ran a search in the bundled UMLS dictionary and the full term and cui 
does existfrom SnomedCT and NCI, with tui T007.

The Dictionary Lookup that you are using filters out terms that don't have tui 
codes registered in the 
resources/org/apache/ctakes/dictionary/lookup/LookupDesc_Db.xml file.  Edit 
that file and add "T007" to the value list for "disorderTuis" property as below:
<property key="disorderTuis" 
value="T019,T020,T037,T046,T047,T048,T049,T050,T190,T191,T007"/>
For <lookupConsumer 
className="org.apache.ctakes.dictionary.lookup.ae.UmlsToSnomedDbConsumerImpl">

Sean

-----Original Message-----
From: Chen, Pei [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 11:32 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: dictionary questions

Hi Chase,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chase Master [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 11:22 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: dictionary questions
> 
> Hi,
> 
> If I am using DictionaryLookupAnnotatorUMLS.xml as the descriptor for 
> that module, with my valid UMLS username and password, does this use 
> the full SNOMED CT and RxNorm dictionaries?  (I believe it connects to 
> the online
> database.)  Because it misses ""VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCI", 
> C1265175, so I was wondering why?

The below UMLS subsets are bundled in the umls resource files:
*       International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical 
Modification, 2012   ICD9CM_2012     ICD9CM  ENG     0       20997
*       International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical 
Modification, Metathesaurus additional entry terms, 2012     MTHICD9_2012    
ICD9CM  ENG     0       16304
*       Medical Subject Headings, 2012_2011_09_09       MSH2012_2011_09_09      
MSH     ENG     0       321367
*       NCI Thesaurus, 2011_02D NCI2011_02D     NCI     ENG     0       90135
*       SNOMED Clinical Terms, 2011_07_31       SNOMEDCT_2011_07_31     
SNOMEDCT        ENG     9       324494
*       RxNorm

> Is it possible to specify that only "child" UMLS CUIs are output- ie. 
> the most descriptive matches?
One will probably either need a custom dictionary or some additional code that 
will consume only the more specific matches.

I hope that helps.
--Pei

> 
> Thanks

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