Hi Larry,
> * I presume I will need to stem the lookup dictionary when I
> build it. Or can I do that at some other point in the pipeline?
ConceptMapper will do that for you at initialize()
> * Does anyone have experience with stemming medical terms? I
> would be running this against clinical notes typed by a physician about
> a patient. My dictionary was built from SNOMED concepts. Will stemming
> even help?
There is a dedicated stemmer (actually, a lemmatizer) for the
biomedical domain, you might want to take a look at it:
http://biolemmatizer.sourceforge.net/
-- Renaud
|