MetaMap Lite: an evaluation of a new Java implementation of MetaMap

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 F<sub>1</sub> scores comparable to or exceeding those of MetaMap and other popular biomedical text processing tools, clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES) and DNorm.</span>
Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - Category: Information Technology Source Type: research