Question

I am working with GATE (Java Based NLP Framework) and want to find words with partial match with a dictionary.
For example I have a disease dictionary with following terms

Congestive cardiac failure
Congestive Heart Failure
Colon Cancer
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Thousands of more terms

Let’s assume I have as string "Father had cardiac failure last year" from this string I want to identify “cardiac failure” as partial match because it occurs as part of a term in the dictionary.

I have seen some discussion on similar subject in Python, JS and C# but I am not sure what can help in such a case here.
I wonder if I can utilize Aho-Corrasick over here.

Answer 1

The UIMA Concept Mapper annotator addon includes a functionality similar to what you are looking. You may consider:

• including using UIMA inside GATE: http://gate.ac.uk/userguide/chap:uima
• develop a similar component using the main ideas from the addon