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.​
>>
>>
>>
>


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