Re: How to use external CSV or BSV in addition to FastUMLS attention Sean [EXTERNAL]

2018-01-05 Thread Abramowitsch, Peter
up descriptors for a lookup using the bsv >files they point to. If you want your bsv lookup to complement the >default lookup it's possible to just have two dictionaries running with >different lookup descriptors. I think it's also possible to have a lookup >descriptor have multiple

Re: Unable to understand the importance of attributes in IdentifiedAnnotations [EXTERNAL]

2018-01-05 Thread Abramowitsch, Peter
Sorry for the very wordy contribution here Following on Tim's answer, I've found the historyOf mechanism to be very weak in its ability to detect more than just a few possible permutations, and one frequent issue is span where history Of modifies a series of concepts. -

Re: How to use external CSV or BSV in addition to FastUMLS attention Sean [EXTERNAL]

2018-01-05 Thread Abramowitsch, Peter
iptors. I think it's also possible to have a lookup >descriptor have multiple lookup types (i.e. multiple >sections inside ) but I can't guarantee that works! >Tim > > >From: Abramowitsch, Peter >Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2018 7:51 AM &

Re: How to use external CSV or BSV in addition to FastUMLS attention Sean [EXTERNAL]

2018-01-04 Thread Abramowitsch, Peter
amp;r=5LM1YwNyMUq7CWiSepCCsjTjwuVF4uswNF8BK5Orm10&m=j2h_timB4skc >lRz6ICf0XlmaUgJekZOOgGo_WF-iuDw&s=qbZInrnxDgeP2prW-pOoOFkVLFweja-ct48H8NWy >dIM&e= > >Tim > > >From: Abramowitsch, Peter >Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2018 7:28 AM >To: dev

Re: How to use external CSV or BSV in addition to FastUMLS attention Sean

2018-01-04 Thread Abramowitsch, Peter
Further to my previous message, Sean, I was wondering if you could tell me whether this answer you gave in 2015, is still the right way to do things in ctakes4.x permalink: http://markmail.org/message/s3ztinppusvsciss Subject:RE: How to update cTAKES so that new top level categories co

How to use external CSV or BSV in addition to FastUMLS

2018-01-04 Thread Abramowitsch, Peter
Can someone point me to any up-to-date how-tos on how to include external CSV/BSV type resources to add synonyms, and other terms for dictionary lookup to augment the FAST UMLS resources that comes out of the box. Perhaps I have missed something, but looking at the CTakesDictionaryCreator UI,

Re: Medical record summarization [EXTERNAL]

2017-08-07 Thread Abramowitsch, Peter
I have built a type of medical summary module, but the ctakes output was only a part of the data source and where it was, there was a great deal of post processing on the CAS, so I suppose it doesn't really classify as a Ctakes module. However, I'd be interested in any attempts that others have mad

Re: Labs annotator?

2017-03-31 Thread Abramowitsch, Peter
ection if you >have something better than ctakes. > >-Original Message- >From: Abramowitsch, Peter [mailto:pabramowit...@hearst.com] >Sent: Friday, March 31, 2017 3:47 AM >To: dev@ctakes.apache.org >Subject: Re: Labs annotator? > >I know I'm probably too late into this

Re: Labs annotator?

2017-03-31 Thread Abramowitsch, Peter
I know I'm probably too late into this discussion, but I think the extra effort to pull out the unit of measure and normalize it will make it possible to parse notes where a parameter's units are described differently from one to the next. It would be a pain for each user of Ctakes to have to pars

Re: Ctakes relation extraction

2017-02-20 Thread Abramowitsch, Peter
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Re: Ctakes relation extraction

2017-02-20 Thread Abramowitsch, Peter
There is another, more generic NLP engine, StanfordCoreNLP which does have more advanced CORel annotation capabilities, but it is not specifically tuned to clinical concepts and relationships. So for instance, causal relationships might be detected if expressed in standard english, but certainly n

Re: Annotator processing failed

2017-02-03 Thread Abramowitsch, Peter
I've had some experience pipelining ctakes behind a servlet (not the demo servlet) and, without going deep into the code, My feeling is that there are no globally static data resources with instance level content. It's all just configuration and dictionaries. Threading errors would only occur if

Re: Introduction

2017-01-17 Thread Abramowitsch, Peter
Hi Melvin I suggest you have a look at the company Mmodal. They have gone a very long way toward clinically tuned speech recognition + NLP + populating and acting on spoken clinical data I am not directly connected with them but had the opportunity to meet their team and see the capabilities of th

Re: CUI vs SNOMED

2016-12-20 Thread Abramowitsch, Peter
Hi Erica In many cases (I would say most cases) there is not enough semantic information in incoming text to resolve to a leaf level SNOMED code, so the CUI is a good cut at mapping the concept. Applications can then surface just the relevant SNOMED codes/descriptions and have the human who has m

Re: Using cTakes for Identified Patient Information

2016-11-02 Thread Abramowitsch, Peter
If by security you mean, protection of data, this would depend entirely on the architecture in which CTakes is situated. CTakes itself does not send anything beyond its perimeter except the UMLS login credentials. So if it were running entirely within a HIPAA compliant environment then yes. Bu

Re: Post co-ordinated SNOMED-CT with AggregatePlaintextFastUMLSProcessor

2016-10-21 Thread Abramowitsch, Peter
While it is doable, it will need some non trivial post processing. The approach I suggest below is just an example, there are many ways to achieve this, but there is no silver bullet. To do something like that I suggest incorporating a TokensRegex analysis engine in your pipeline. I have had a lo

Re: Ctakes Temporal demo - XML response

2016-09-12 Thread Abramowitsch, Peter
Hi Vicky There are two Time related annotation types and neither of them are incredibly useful on their own and there's no documentation that I've found, so far. What I've deduced is by trial and error with short phrases, trying to reverse engineer the behavior TimeMention attempts to link a tim

Re: Help needed with document creation time/date

2016-07-13 Thread Abramowitsch, Peter
Thank you! Knowing now that it's a do-it-yourself thing, I might also try adding those expressions to a RegexAnnotator that I'm using: It allows the expressions to be added and combined in an external file. https://logiciels.lina.univ-nantes.fr/redmine/.../uima-tokens-regex-documen tation.pdf I

Re: Help needed with document creation time/date

2016-07-13 Thread Abramowitsch, Peter
Got it. Thanks On 7/13/16, 12:00 PM, "Finan, Sean" wrote: >DATE_PATTERN.matcher

Re: Help needed with document creation time/date

2016-07-13 Thread Abramowitsch, Peter
imerel, >doctime) together post-process. We are doing this in one project. > >Sean > >-Original Message- >From: Abramowitsch, Peter [mailto:pabramowit...@hearst.com] >Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 2:33 PM >To: dev@ctakes.apache.org >Subject: Help needed with d

Help needed with document creation time/date

2016-07-13 Thread Abramowitsch, Peter
Hello All How can I get Ctakes to deduce the document creation datetime from the text. I have a pipeline including the following engines Basic Token Processing FastUMLS Zoner ClearNLPDependencyParserAE PolarityCleartkAnalysisEngine UncertaintyCleartkAnalysisEngine HistoryCleartkAnalysisEngi

Re: Help - cTakes with UMLS and Ytex

2016-06-28 Thread Abramowitsch, Peter
Vivek Chris and I responded to you about 12 hours ago. On 6/28/16, 10:17 AM, "Vivek Venugopal" wrote: >Hi, > >Regarding my query on cTakes and UMLS : >I haven't got any response. Any info would be helpful. > > >Thanks, >Vivek Venugopal. >

Re: running pipeline from command line

2016-06-28 Thread Abramowitsch, Peter
Hi Dima Personally I hate Maven because of how it obscures classpaths and dependencies (even though it purports to make that easier). My use case is a little different than yours, but when I launch a little pipeline from the command line, it looks as simple as this: Cd into the top of my applic

Re: URI is not hierarchical

2016-06-28 Thread Abramowitsch, Peter
On second thought... This might be useful http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18055189/why-my-uri-is-not-hierarchical On 6/28/16, 9:24 AM, "Abramowitsch, Peter" wrote: >Dima > >Although I'm not an expert, I don't think Ctakes relies on any Environment >varia

Re: URI is not hierarchical

2016-06-28 Thread Abramowitsch, Peter
Dima Although I'm not an expert, I don't think Ctakes relies on any Environment variables a priori, unless you have a Ctakes extensions that has added a dependency. Depending on your error you may need to look in AE or TypeSystem definition files or in the uimafit types.txt file where search path

Re: CTakes APIs

2016-06-27 Thread Abramowitsch, Peter
It doesn't actually access the database, It accesses your UMLS license. - P On 6/27/16, 11:04 PM, "Vicky Chawda" wrote: >cTAKES as a REST API in Apache Tika accesses UMLS Database online, How can >we set it up in offline mode? > >Regards, > >*Vicky Chawda.* >*Software Engineer,* >*Praxify Tech

Re: CTakes APIs

2016-06-27 Thread Abramowitsch, Peter
I created one in about 15 minutes using SparkJava. Basically you look at the code in the ClinicalPipeline package that gives you the workflow to create a pipeline, assign incoming text to a newly created Jcas, and then run the pipeline, finally calling a Json or XmlSerializer on the populated CAS

Re: Help - cTakes with UMLS and Ytex

2016-06-27 Thread Abramowitsch, Peter
I'm not sure of Ytex adds another requirement, but is there any reason you can't just download the pre-built UMLS tables and use the internal Ctakes hsql DB mechanism as documented here? : https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CTAKES/cTAKES+3.2+Dictionaries+ and+Models. I would also choose

Problems initializing new Annotator

2016-06-21 Thread Abramowitsch, Peter
Help -- I need suggestions for where else to look for a problem adding a new annotation engine to a pipeline. I've Run out of ideas. New Annotator is a UimaTokensRegex which builds an annotation called MultipleWordTermOccurrence. Here is where I've gotten to: * Created Cas description of Engin

multiple issues with Ctakes 3.2.2

2015-08-25 Thread Abramowitsch, Peter
Hello Ctakes Dev This is a general set of question which may reflect a bad install on my part or something going on in the 3.2 version that is more than just a set of boundary case bugs. I am a newcomer to CTakes, but have spent a lot of time with StanfordCoreNLP, writing annotators, and with