Tim, this is a very interesting observation. Could you please send a few 
examples of what LVG generates? Both sensical and non :)

Dima




On Apr 17, 2014, at 11:28, Miller, Timothy 
<timothy.mil...@childrens.harvard.edu> wrote:

> The LVG annotator creates an enormous number of "lemmas" for every
> WordToken in the CAS, and I'm wondering what the original purpose was? I
> think this is probably a minor bottleneck for speed but mostly a pretty
> big space hog (at least 50% of the space of xmi files in my tests).
> 
> As of right now I'm not sure if any downstream components are using
> these lemmas, and on a manual inspection the precision seems to be
> pretty abysmal (meaning most of them are nonsensical as lexical
> variants), so as I said, just wondering if we can revisit why cTAKES
> generates so many and whether that component can be optimized.
> 
> Thanks
> Tim
> 

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