Re: With custom dictionary - over-eager resolution of acronyms [EXTERNAL] [EXTERNAL]

2020-08-02 Thread Peter Abramowitsch
>It would have two completely different applications: a superior way of finding the values of findings and a way of validating/pruning the polarity status of concepts that are in an semi-grammatical or improperly punctuated sentence -- Cool. I expect to see it by end of business tomorrow. ...

Re: With custom dictionary - over-eager resolution of acronyms [EXTERNAL] [EXTERNAL]

2020-08-02 Thread Finan, Sean
For Peter and Jeff: > are the vocabulary & tui selections that one finds as defaults in the > dictionary creator something set by the creator as a ctakes optimization -- Good question, and the answer is "no." Those vocabularies and semantic types were chosen simply because they contain

Re: With custom dictionary - over-eager resolution of acronyms [EXTERNAL]

2020-08-02 Thread Peter Abramowitsch
Many thanks Sean and Jeff. You guys must be both on the East Coast, because my coffee has only just kicked in enough to digest your lucid replies. Super helpful information. It sounds like the quick and dirty solution is to rebuild the dictionary without the OMIM and MTH vocabularies. So

Re: With custom dictionary - over-eager resolution of acronyms [EXTERNAL]

2020-08-02 Thread Jeffrey Miller
Hi Peter and Sean, I recently created a dictionary based off of UMLS 2020AA and did not see 'bed' or 'soft' mapped as synonyms to those terms in my .script file. They are there, but mapped to other cuis (for example, the cui for an actual bed from SNOMED). I think the difference is that I select

Re: With custom dictionary - over-eager resolution of acronyms [EXTERNAL]

2020-08-02 Thread Finan, Sean
Hi Peter, I would guess that you are seeing things like "SOFT" because you new dictionary has a vocabulary that was not included in sno_rx_16ab. I don't remember if OMIM (which has the 'SOFT' synonym) was included in sno_rx_16ab. Probably not, omim is a more -specialized- vocabulary for