[Cuitools-users] CuiTools v0.21 released

[Bridget T. M. <bth...@cs...>]

Hello,

We are pleased to announce the release of CuiTools version 0.21

CuiTools (Coo-e Tools) is a freely available package of Perl programs for 
unsupervised and supervised word sense disambiguation (WSD) experiments. 
The name CuiTools comes from the Concept Unique Identifiers (CUIs) found 
in the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). This package allows the 
users to perform supervised or unsupervised word sense disambiguation 
using information extracted from the UMLS such as CUIs, semantic types and 
semantic relations as well as general English features such as unigrams, 
bigrams and part-of-speech information.

As of version 0.21, there has been significant changes in our unsupervised 
tools and the converters. For our unsupervised tools, we now require the 
UMLS-Interface module to be installed. This module accesses the UMLS 
through a mysql database which allows us to incorporate additional UMLS 
information. For our converters, we have finally fully converted from 
using the MetaMap Transfer Program (MMTx) to MetaMap. This should 
dramatically speed up the any tool that was using MMTx.

Thank you,

Bridget