Hi Pei, Sorry for the delay...been swamped. I like the pillars of the Apache way, especially meritocracy. "We call this basic principle "meritocracy": literally, government by merit." Sounds like something right out of Atlas Shrugged, one of my favorite books. I'll just need to get up to speed with Jira. For now, how about you submit the jira to get the merit points as my little Xmas present to you. :-) The cue words: 'lack of' for negation. I thought that 'predictive of' would be uncertain but now that I think about seems more like negation. ..."the patient has a blood sugar level that is predictive of diabetes." Patient may or may not have it in this case and high blood sugar could mean diabetes or other issues, so it's really questionable. Okay, I waffle on this one, final answer for 'predictive of' is an uncertain classification. Thanks. Regards, Paula
From: [email protected] To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: cTakes: question on updating cue words Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 14:59:00 +0000 Paula, My intention was not to add on any unnecessary additional administrative. Feel free to make any changes to your local copy as you see fit, but I think your suggestions such as new cue words are valuable contributions in making cTAKES better even if it’s just a 1 line code change. Meritocracy is one of the pillars of the Apache Way [1] and one earns merit by contributing. In addition to tracking changes to the software, Jira is also a useful tool to ensure that credit is properly attributed rightfully to their contributors. --Pei [1] http://apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#meritocracy From: digital paula [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 3:28 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: cTakes: question on updating cue words Hi Pei, I don't consider this a bug so not sure why a jira ticket is needed, I just need to add 2 cue words wondering if I can do it manually? Exploring a bit, I see there are .psv files in Assertion component in the Cue_Words folder that I updated but it doesn't seem to work. I also added to the Semantic_Classes folder (in Assertion as well), the cue words in the .txt file and that didn't work either. One thing that I haven't tried is updating the cue words in the org.mitre.medfacts.i2b2.cuefiles package for the jar file: medfacts-i2b2-1.2.SNAPSHPOT.jar. That would be a little more work since I need to extract and rebuild jar file and add back to project. I'm kind of on a huge deadline and hoping I can make these changes today so hoping this doesn't require a lot of time to just add a couple cue words. By the way, was is a .psv file? Thanks. Regards, Paula From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: cTakes: question on updating cue words Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 19:31:45 +0000 [moved to dev@] Hi Paula, My suggestion would be to open a Jira item so that it could be tracked: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CTAKES (Feel free to create a new account). Even cooler if you could attach the affected files with the patch(diffs) and any tests. --Pei From: digital paula [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 1:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: cTakes: question on updating cue words Hello again cTAKES Community, I would like to add additional cue words to polarity (for negation) and uncertainty. I would so appreciate if someone can let me know how I can add additional cue words. Thanks. Regards, Paula
