MetaMap UIMA Wrapper 0.3.0

MetaMap UIMA Wrapper description

A wrapper for UMLS MetaMap to help you with your work.

MetaMap UIMA Wrapper is as the name states an easy to use, handy wrapper that makes the UMLS MetaMap tool available as an UIMA analysis engine.

MetaMap is a highly configurable program developed by Dr. Alan (Lan) Aronson at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to map biomedical text to the UMLS Metathesaurus or, equivalently, to discover Metathesaurus concepts referred to in text.

Here are some key features of "MetaMap UIMA Wrapper":

· A UIMA type system for the MetaMap output (BasicMetaMapAnnotator).
· Support batch mode processing of MetaMap via SKR API. This allows to use MetaMap without having a local version installed (especially for Windows users).
· Start the Tagger and Disambiguation Server automatically (BasicMetaMapAnnotator).
· Execute a locally installed MetaMap and parse the output into the type system (BasicMetaMapAnnotator).
· Decode the semantic types of the machine output into human readable types (AdvMetaMapAnnotator).
· Find entities by concept and/or semantic type (AdvMetaMapAnnotator).

Requirements:

· Woodstox XML parser (Version > 4.0), to parse the XML output of MetaMap.
· The UIMA runtime
· MetaMap 2009 (you have to specify it's location in the analysis engine descriptor as parameter)