Thanks for the link to BioLemmatizer. I tried it but the problem with it is that in order to get accurate results you need to know the part of speech of the word you wish to lemmatize. But ConceptMapper requires one to implement the Stemmer interface which allows you to pass only a String to the stem method. No part of speech.
Larry -----Original Message----- From: Renaud Richardet [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 7:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ConceptMapper and stemming 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 </pre>The contents of this electronic mail message and any attachments are confidential, possibly privileged and intended for the addressee(s) only.<br>Only the addressee(s) may read, disseminate, retain or otherwise use this message. If received in error, please immediately inform the sender and then delete this message without disclosing its contents to anyone.</pre>
