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MetaMap BDB Tables

BDB (Berkeley-DB) tables were generated based on the request from MetaMap group in Jan., 2013. The requirements of above documents have been modified after several Email discussions. Five tables are generated and are detailed as follows:

MetaMap Dir:

The source codes and scripts are at: ${GIT_DIR}/lexicon-metamapTables

Notes on normInflvarEui.data:

    • Before 2014
      • from STMT, (must run STMT preProcess first)
      • need data from UMLS MRCONSO.RRF (release.AA or release.AB)

    • After 2015+, added to the MetaMap BDB script - option 6

Run Program:

  • shell>cd ${METAMAP_TABLE}/bin
  • shell>GetMetaMapTables.ascii ${YEAR}
  • shell>GetMetaMapTables.UTF-8 ${YEAR}

  • Pre-process
    1 setup

  • Processes
    2
    3
    4
    5.1
    5.2
    6
    2015 (use the latest version of STMT, no need to get the data from UMLS-Meta)

  • Post-process (deploy to NLM support directory):
    10
    11