MetaMap Lite: an evaluation of a new Java implementation of MetaMap.
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SUBMITTER: Demner-Fushman D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6080672 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
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MetaMap Lite: an evaluation of a new Java implementation of MetaMap.
Demner-Fushman Dina D Rogers Willie J WJ Aronson Alan R AR
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 20170701 4
MetaMap is a widely used named entity recognition tool that identifies concepts from the Unified Medical Language System Metathesaurus in text. This study presents MetaMap Lite, an implementation of some of the basic MetaMap functions in Java. On several collections of biomedical literature and clinical text, MetaMap Lite demonstrated real-time speed and precision, recall, and F1 scores comparable to or exceeding those of MetaMap and other popular biomedical text processing tools, clinical Text ...[more]
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