Well, you know, ConceptMapper is an open source project, so you (or someone) could extend it…
On Dec 21, 2012, at 1:01 PM, "Kline, Larry D" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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> >
