Hi Larry, > * I presume I will need to stem the lookup dictionary when I > build it. Or can I do that at some other point in the pipeline? ConceptMapper will do that for you at initialize()
> * Does anyone have experience with stemming medical terms? I > would be running this against clinical notes typed by a physician about > a patient. My dictionary was built from SNOMED concepts. Will stemming > even help? There is a dedicated stemmer (actually, a lemmatizer) for the biomedical domain, you might want to take a look at it: http://biolemmatizer.sourceforge.net/ -- Renaud
