Package gov.nih.nlm.nls.stmt.Norm

Contains STMT normalization classes.

See: Description

Class Summary

Class	Description
LexItemNorm	This program is a java class to nomalized a LexItem.
LvgNorm	This class provides lvg Norm operations.
SynonymNorm	This program is a java class to nomalized synonyms.

Package gov.nih.nlm.nls.stmt.Norm Description

Contains STMT normalization classes. Normalization is often needed in NLP to abstract away things we don't need. Such as case, punctutation, spelling varaints, infelctional variants, word order, ASCII, etc.. It is depends on the project requirement and can be easiliy set up by the SPECIALIST Lexical Tools. This package include three typical norms:

• LexItemNorm (-f:g:rs:o:l): norm for LexItem (used in MetaMap)
• LvgNorm (-f:q0:g:rs:o:t:l:B:Ct:q7:q8:w): norm in the Lexical Tools
• SynonymNorm (-f:g:rs:Ct:o:l): norm for synonyma (used in UMLS-Core)

Since:

2013