[CTAKES-231] missing NEs because of inconsistent chunking for parallel sentence constructions

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Workaround
• Affects Version/s: 3.0-incubating
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0
• Component/s: ctakes-chunker
• Assignee: Sean Finan
• Reporter: James Joseph Masanz
• Created: 29/Aug/13 15:35
• Updated: 30/Dec/22 23:31
• Resolved: 30/Dec/22 23:31

Description

cancer of colon, lung and liver
results in an annotation for liver cancer

cancer of colon, liver and lung.
does not result in an annotation for liver cancer or for lung cancer.

Thanks Dennis Lee Hon Kit for reporting this.

Details:

Reproduced by running 3.0.0-incubating with the separately downloadable UMLS resources, using the AggregatePlaintextUMLSProcessor.xml, results in these chunk annotations:

[0] org.apache.ctakes.typesystem.type.syntax.NP
[1] org.apache.ctakes.typesystem.type.syntax.PP
[2] org.apache.ctakes.typesystem.type.syntax.NP
[3] org.apache.ctakes.typesystem.type.syntax.NP
[4] org.apache.ctakes.typesystem.type.syntax.PP
[5] org.apache.ctakes.typesystem.type.syntax.NP
[6] org.apache.ctakes.typesystem.type.syntax.O
[7] org.apache.ctakes.typesystem.type.syntax.O
[8] org.apache.ctakes.typesystem.type.syntax.NP