Howdy, all. I’ve got a lot of experience with various commercial extraction tools, but I’m new to cTAKES and UIMA, so please bear with me.
I am able to use my UMLS credentials to process documents, and the results are good. But there are a few things I wish to change in the medfacts.types.Concept and AnatomicalSiteMention areas, for starters. For example, while it annotates “orbicularis oculi” as a concept, it does not annotate “musculus orbicularis oculi”, “septum orbital”, or “oculi medialis”. It annotates “ulceration”, “perforation”, and “corneal perforation” but not “corneal ulceration”. It annotates “men” (as in “Chinese men”) as a “problem”. It annotates “ER” (ie Emergency Room) as an AnatomicalSiteReference. So, the question becomes, how do I address these? Do I need to somehow re-generate (with changes) the UMLS data files, probably using Luke or some such? That seems a bit crude. Is there a clean way to supplement those data files instead to achieve the desired changes? Thanks in advance. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Richard A Lee || Lead Associate / Senior Ontologist || [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> || 571-482-7809
