Hi Jessica, Thank-You!!! I'm looking into cTAKES sandbox, but I only found this page: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CTAKES/cTAKES+3.2+Dictionaries+and+Models Do you have more details about those tools? Any directions would be appreciated!
Thanks, S.H. On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Jessica Glover <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi S.H., > > cTAKES does not query the UMLS online version. The cTAKES dictionary is > built from a subset of the UMLS Metathesaurus. There are two tools in the > cTAKES sandbox, dictionary-gui and dictionarytool that you can use to build > a dictionary from the subset of the UMLS Metathesaurus that you installed. > (they use the META files, though - not the MySQL database) > The tools allow you to choose what TUIs, vocabularies, etc. to include in > your dictionary. These choices affect the dictionary's size. > > I hope that helps, > Jessica > > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 12:36 PM, SH.Chou <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> I just started to use cTAKES, and have a question regarding the data >> size of UMLS 2011ab (the default dataset in cTAKES) and new 2016aa. >> I install 2016aa in MySQL database, the data size is about 14G~, but the >> 2011ab in cTAKES is just 2G~. I wondered if cTAKES use UMLS API and submit >> words to query UMLS online version? >> Or cTAKES compressed 2011ab (using HSQL?). >> >> Thanks, >> S.H. >> >> >> > -- ===================================== Shih-Hsiung Chou Charlotte, NC.
