Offhand I recall at least one of the dependency parsers used the Lemma annotations at one point. Not sure if still does.
There is an option for turning off the posting of the lemmas to the cas. Hope that helps -----Original Message----- From: Miller, Timothy [mailto:timothy.mil...@childrens.harvard.edu] Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 11:27 AM To: dev@ctakes.apache.org Subject: lvg entries 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
