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From: David Kincaid <kincaid.dave@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 07:44:26 -0500
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Subject: Improving cTAKES performance "out of the box"
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I've been starting to work with cTAKES recently and trying out the clinical
pipeline on some documents. I was wondering what were some of the first
things that people are modifying to improve the performance? When I look at
the annotations after running some discharge documents through, the
performance on negation, history of, concept detection (medications,
signs/symptoms, disease/disorder, etc), etc are not very good. Are there
newer components or models that people are plugging in?

I've only just started working with it (although I have been following the
project for some time) as a side project/proof of concept to try to get
some funding for a bigger project. This looks like a very good starting
point and I'm hoping to get a chance to work with it a lot more. I
appreciate any advice the group might have.

Thanks,

Dave Kincaid

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<div dir=3D"ltr">I&#39;ve been starting to work with cTAKES recently and tr=
ying out the clinical pipeline on some documents. I was wondering what were=
 some of the first things that people are modifying to improve the performa=
nce? When I look at the annotations after running some discharge documents =
through, the performance on negation, history of, concept detection (medica=
tions, signs/symptoms, disease/disorder, etc), etc are not very good. Are t=
here newer components or models that people are plugging in?<div>

<br></div><div>I&#39;ve only just started working with it (although I have =
been following the project for some time) as a side project/proof of concep=
t to try to get some funding for a bigger project. This looks like a very g=
ood starting point and I&#39;m hoping to get a chance to work with it a lot=
 more. I appreciate any advice the group might have.</div>

<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Dave Kincaid</div></di=
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