Exact text value

[samjsramirez]

From paper Kraljevic, Zeljko, et al. "MedCAT--medical concept annotation tool." arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.10166 (2019), "An annotation by MedCAT is considered correct only if the exact text value was found and the annotation was linked to the correct concept in the CDB."

My understand is that the exact text value would include the start and end index of prediction, but from the cat.py, it seems that the end index is not included, only the start and the cui? Thank you.

[w-is-h]

Hi @samjsramirez, you are exactly right, this implementation is slightly different from the version we've used for the paper. The main reason was to avoid problems of the model not detecting a dot, comma, space, whatever 1-2 character span that is irrelevant for determining correctness but annotated during manual (gold standard) annotations. There were probably better ways to do this, but this was the simplest.