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Sub-Term Mapping Tools

LexItemNorm

  • Descriptions:
    • LexItemNorm is used to abstract away from:
      • g: Genitive
      • rs: parenthetical plural forms (s), (es), (ies)
      • o: Punctuation
      • l: cases

      • remove duplicated space
      • trim
      • remove duplicated results

  • Notes:
    • An application of using Lexical Tools - LvgApi
    • No category information is considered
    • Similar (not the same) to -f:g:rs:o:l
    • It is used in MetaMap to find terms in Lexicon for the prefixes.

    • This is a one to one operation
    • Lower recall rate and high precision