Section Definition Directory and Section Definition File

[Tkuura]

What is the meaning of the fields Section Definition Directory and Section Definition File? We're trying to use and change the software (add language support), but can not figure out how to exactly. Could you please reach out and help us? We've tried e-mail but got no response.

[dnstone]

Hi @Tkuura,
Sorry for any inconveniences you are encountering.

The Section Definition File is needed for processing text documents. It expects a TSV formatted file with no headings (Please put the path of the file into the Section Definition File field). The First Column of the TSV is the Heading Name, followed by the assigned LOINC Code in the Second Column. It needs this to identify and assign sections of the text to sections in the resulting FHIR Documents.

The Section Definition Directory can be left blank. I believe that we planned to remove it in the later versions of the software.

Examples:
Text based Document to process:
example_text.txt

Section Definition File:
example_section_headings.csv

I hope that this will resolve any confusion regarding this.