To answer my own question, and for anyone searching the mail archives in the future, I haven't fully explored it yet, but it seems that Vanderbilt already did this with SecTag.
JG On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 9:29 PM, digital paula <cybersat...@hotmail.com>wrote: > John, > > I've been out of the loop for a few weeks now w/the cTAKES developer list > and will be until end of Feb... too many pressing deadlines. I have to > step through the code again to verify if sectionizer uses reg ex but I'm > pretty sure that it does. Hmmm, that does sound interesting to train the > sectionizer from clinical notes. Not familiar with Mastif so hopefully > someone else can chime in on your question there. Talk to you and > everyone very soon. :-) > > Regards, > Paula > > > Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 17:05:40 -0500 > > Subject: Sectionizer > > From: john.travis.gr...@gmail.com > > To: dev@ctakes.apache.org > > > > I know there has been some chatter about sectionizers. From what I > > understand Paula is doing, and from what I understand YTEX does, they are > > all regular expression based, correct? > > > > Has anyone added to rule based matching a statistical/Markov type > > sectionizer? E.g. one trained from a bunch of notes? > > > > Does Mastif work this way? > > > > Thanks all, > > JG > >