This is the Jena UMLS Filter Tool (JuFiT), a rule-based open-source tool to filter and enhance entries of the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). JuFiT uses rules similar to those in MetaMap and Casper, but extends these by adding support for multiple languages and their language-specific phenomena, e.g., German compounds. We provide rules for English, Spanish, French, German, and Dutch, yet the declarative implementation of these rules makes it possible to add support for further languages without changing JuFiT’s source code.
We modify JuFiT. One of the new features is the removement of all docopt statements and a new configuration file jufit_config.json including all input statements for the filter tool. There are problems with docopt and new Java versions.
We adapt the tool step by step and will update new features as soon as possible. New steps look into branch SemanticTypes.
You need files from the UMLS. After registration at UTS, you can download the UMLS files from the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NIH). Unpack the ZIP file of a UMLS version (e.g. umls-2017AA-full.zip). Unpack the files MRCONSO.RRF.aa and MRCONSO.RRF.ab (files of Concept Names and Sources), concatenate these both to one file and unpack MRSTY.RFF (Semantic Types). Use these files for the input of JuFiT.
More information on the UMLS can be found in the UMLS® Reference Manual.
BSD license (2-clause).
Please cite JuFiT: A Configurable Rule Engine for Filtering and Generating New Multilingual UMLS Terms when using JuFiT in your research.
java -jar <JuFiT-file.jar>
followed by (on the same line)
<mrconso> <mrsty> <language> (--mrconso | --terms | --grounded | --complex) [--outFile=FILE] [--semanticGroup=GROUP] ... [--rules=JSON] [--noFilter]
--help
--version
Options:
--help Show this screen
--version Show the version number
--mrconso MRCONSO output format (one format must be chosen)
--terms terms only output (one format must be chosen)
--grounded terms and CUIs output, separated with "|" (one format must be chosen)
--complex complex output format providing applied rules, also writes removed terms to stderr (one format must be chosen)
--outFile=FILE write output to this file instead of stdout
--semanticGroup=GROUP Process only terms belonging to a semantic group (repeat for multiple)
--rules=JSON file with rules to use instead of defaults (probably not a good idea)
--noFilter Do not filter output (incompatible with --mrconso as nothing would need to be done)
Languages must be given as three letter abbreviations, e.g., ENG, GER, SPA, FRE or DUT
We suggest updating your Java VM arguments to use at least 0.5GB of RAM, i.e., -Xmx512M
- 1.1 New output formats, new command line interface, change to license
- 1.2 Semantic Group definition (from https://metamap.nlm.nih.gov/Docs/SemGroups_2018.txt)