title: MetaMap Lite: an evaluation of a new Java implementation of MetaMap.
abstract: MetaMap is a widely used named entity recognition tool that identifies concepts from the Unified Medical Language System Metathesaurus in text. 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 F1 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.
authors.affiliation: Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Dina
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Demner-Fushman
authors.affiliation: Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Willie J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Rogers
authors.affiliation: Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Alan R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Aronson
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D012984:Software; D017432:Unified Medical Language System
keywords: algorithms; natural language processing; software design; software validation; unified medical language system