I think it depends on - what terminologies you want to get the synonyms from - if you care that the dictionaries used by cTAKES have been tokenized by cTAKES
If you are happy with the 4 terminologies (SNOMED-CT, NCI thesaurus, MeSH, and ICD-9) that cTAKES uses for things like diseases/disorders, and you don't mind cTAKES' tokenization of the terms, then you could use the tables within the ctakes-resources database. I think a better option though would be to use an external API or download you own copy of the UMLS metathesaurus, and just get all terms for the given CUI, subsetted by whatever set of terminologies you are interested in. Note, the UMLS folks are careful to state that just because 2 atoms map to the same UMLS Concept and therefore CUI, they should not be called synonyms. From: samir chabou [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 6:33 PM To: Masanz, James J.; '[email protected]' Subject: Re: Synonymous terms thanks James for the info., do you know if there is a way in cTAKES to allow me getting the synonyms for a given CUI ? or should i try to use an external API that could do that ? On Tuesday, October 22, 2013 10:55:54 AM, "Masanz, James J." <[email protected]> wrote: ontologyConceptArray only contains SNOMED-CT codes (except for medications, where it contains RxNorm codes or CUIs) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of samir chabou Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 6:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Fw: Synonymous terms On Monday, October 21, 2013 7:58:01 PM, samir chabou <[email protected]> wrote: Synonymous terms Given a C0001621 I need to get its synonyms terms for example in MeSH, ICD, SNOMED (as shown bellow)…Is that possible ? Synonymous terms Adrenal gland diseases MeSH D000307 Diseases of the adrenal glands SNOMED DB-70000 ... Are the synonyms kept in ontologyConceptArray ? If yes, then in the ontologyConceptArray the information displayed is about identifier (code, cui, tui, oid …) if I need to get term name do I have to do a lookup on umls ? thanks Samir
