Hi Paul, To my knowledge, in order to use any UMLS dictionary, the script needs to authenticate the user with the NLM servers. In order to make this work in our closed environment, we had to do two things:
1. Set up a proxy to relay the authentication and protect the sensitive data 2. Point the scripts to the proxy instead of NLM server. Furthermore, you might need to request UMLS Distributor level on your UMLS Master account. This is more license issue and only necessary of you are planning of providing UMLS services to users. Cheers, Gundolf. -- Dr Gundolf Schenk Principal Data Scientist Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute University of California, San Francisco From: MITCHELL Paul <[email protected]> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 06:12 To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: RE: UMLS question Thanks Gandhi, Do you know if that is using the standard UMLS scripts? And do you know of any article on how to setup cTAKES to read from the database? Thanks, Paul. From: gandhi rajan <[email protected]> ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerStart This Message Is From an External Sender This message came from outside your organization. ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerEnd Thanks Gandhi, Do you know if that is using the standard UMLS scripts? And do you know of any article on how to setup cTAKES to read from the database? Thanks, Paul. From: gandhi rajan <[email protected]> Sent: 13 May 2021 14:03 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: UMLS question This email was sent to you by someone outside the University. You should only click on links or attachments if you are certain that the email is genuine and the content is safe. Hi Paul, You can load the custom UMLS dictionary to an MYSQL database and use it in-house. You don't need any external access for this. On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 3:33 PM MITCHELL Paul <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi, I’ve created my own custom dictionary for the UMLS source and applied it to DefaultJCasTermAnnotator. However, I notice that this makes a request to UMLS server. We are planning on using the software in an environment which will have no external access is it possible to run a cTAKES pipeline in this sort of environment? Thanks, Paul. The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336. -- Regards, Gandhi "The best way to find urself is to lose urself in the service of others !!!"
