I did have slides.  I suppose that I can do some digging through my old 
laptop's crowded disk ...

Sean


-----Original Message-----
From: Miller, Timothy [mailto:timothy.mil...@childrens.harvard.edu] 
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2018 11:16 AM
To: dev@ctakes.apache.org
Subject: Re: Fast UMLS dictionary lookup description [EXTERNAL] [SUSPICIOUS] 
[SUSPICIOUS]

Didn't you have some slides at some point as well? I don't know if they are 
suitable for public consumption but I remember it was helpful for me at least.
Tim

On Fri, 2018-02-23 at 15:34 +0000, Finan, Sean wrote:
> Unfortunately, writing is not my jam.  I wrote about 50% of a paper 
> and then shoved it aside for other tasks.  Now I have no idea where I 
> saved it ...
> 
> However, there is an outline of sorts in the code repository within 
> the ctakes-dictionary-lookup-fast module.  The doc/ directory contains 
> a few files and the DictionaryLookupHelp document may address your 
> question.  I apparently wrote it in March of 2014 (time
> flies) so I am guessing that some minor details have changed, but the 
> main flow is the same.
> 
> Sean
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gandhi Rajan Natarajan [mailto:gandhi.natara...@arisglobal.com]
>  
> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2018 2:57 AM
> To: dev@ctakes.apache.org
> Subject: RE: Fast UMLS dictionary lookup description [EXTERNAL]
> 
> Hi Masoud,
> 
> 
> 
> In this link - https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__c
> wiki.apache.org_confluence_display_CTAKES_cTAKES-2B4.0-2B-2D-2BFast-
> 2BDictionary-
> 2BLookup&d=DwIGaQ&c=qS4goWBT7poplM69zy_3xhKwEW14JZMSdioCoppxeFU&r=fs6
> 7GvlGZstTpyIisCYNYmQCP6r0bcpKGd4f7d4gTao&m=2lx9jiMXTJ4lNLDbef7KG0qSHx
> D_AZH_DYqrQyAZWSY&s=UpxVWvyK8fZ_8vnYhIrFZlUza0qBHuqVme5n-8zEeqw&e=, I 
> could see an information stating " A paper on rare word indexing is 
> currently in progress."
> 
> 
> 
> May be Sean or Tim will be able to provide info on this I feel.
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Gandhi
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> From: Masoud Rouhizadeh [mailto:m...@jhu.edu]
> 
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2018 9:57 PM
> 
> To: dev@ctakes.apache.org
> 
> Subject: Fast UMLS dictionary lookup description
> 
> 
> 
> Hello, cTAKES developing team,
> 
> 
> 
> We are using and comparing various NLP tools (including cTAKES) for 
> processing over 5 million clinical notes within Johns Hopkins Medical 
> Institutes. As a part of our comparisons, we are exploring the 
> architecture of the NER and (UMLS) concept linking components of the 
> tools.
> 
> 
> 
> I was able to find the description on the cTAKES default/original 
> dictionary look up in the Savova et. al. 2010 paper but I was not able 
> to find a paper or tech report describing the fast UMLS dictionary 
> lookup (Fast UMLS Processor) yet.
> 
> 
> 
> Any description of the fast dictionary lookup algorithm is highly 
> appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Masoud Rouhizadeh
> 
> 
> 
> ----
> 
> Masoud Rouhizadeh, PhD
> 
> 
> 
> NLP Specialist / Software Engineer
> 
> Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Center for Clinical 
> Data Analysis School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
> 
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__pages.jh.edu_-7Em
> rouhiz1&d=DwIGaQ&c=qS4goWBT7poplM69zy_3xhKwEW14JZMSdioCoppxeFU&r=fs67
> GvlGZstTpyIisCYNYmQCP6r0bcpKGd4f7d4gTao&m=2lx9jiMXTJ4lNLDbef7KG0qSHxD
> _AZH_DYqrQyAZWSY&s=sqC6maCH-rhpZGJ_y6zc1q1K1z5FDYjcN6HhX8e_ZbY&e=
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