Thank you both very much. That was very helpful. 

Best,

JG
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On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 3:17 PM, Finan, Sean
<[email protected]> wrote:

>> Adding triggers requires modifying a text file - much simpler than changing 
>> code and compiling.
> +1
> Thanks Vijay!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vijay garla [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 3:13 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Negex
> I think the original ctakes negation AE is in the spirit of Negex, but it is 
> not Negex.  AFAICT the ctakes negation AE
> * requires that triggers are single tokens
> * does not support conjuctions (e.g. however, nevertheless) or post-negation 
> triggers (e.g. free, was ruled out)
> * is based on a FSM, which is different from the way Negex rules work
> * requires modifying and recompiling code to add negation triggers
> We ported the Negex algorithm 1-1 to UIMA to address these issues.  See the 
> ctakes-ytex-uima\desc\analysis_engine\NegexAnnotator.xml and the 
> corresponding trigger file
> (ctakes-ytex-res\src\main\resources\org\apache\ctakes\ytex\negex\negex_triggers.txt)
> Adding triggers requires modifying a text file - much simpler than changing 
> code and compiling.
> -vj
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Finan, Sean < 
> [email protected]> wrote:
>> I don't know.  I'm comparing what I think is the 2009 negex trigger 
>> set 
>> https://code.google.com/p/negex/source/browse/trunk/GeneralNegEx.Java.
>> v.1.2.05092009/negex_triggers.txt
>>
>> with the cTakes trigger set in
>> org.apache.ctakes.core.fsm.machine.NegationFSM.java and it looks like 
>> the cTakes set is missing some 2009 negex trigger words, such as "exhibit".
>>
>> Anyway, you can read
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CTAKES/cTAKES+3.0+-+NE+Con
>> texts for info on adding triggers to the cTakes version.
>>
>> Sean
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John Green [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 2:03 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Negex
>>
>> Thanks Ma'am for the input!
>>
>>
>> So to clarify: ctakes added additional trigger words to the list 
>> published originally? (This is an unrelated question to the negex vs 
>> ml thread last month).
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> John
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>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Green, John <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all - Does anyone know off the top of their head if the negex 
>> > trigger rules included in the original 2009 python script were added 
>> > to when it was implemented in ctakes?
>> > Thanks,
>> > John
>>

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