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# Authors:
# Stephane Meystre
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# Julien Charles Thibault
# [email protected]
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# Oscar Ferrandez Escamez
# [email protected]
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# Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah
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# Date: April 2010           
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JavaConText 
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JavaConText is a Java implementation of the ConText algorithm.

References of the ConText algorithm:
- Chapman WW, Dowling JN, Chu DL. ConText: An algorithm for identifying contextual features from clinical text. In: BioNLP Workshop of the Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czech Republic; 2007. p. 81-88.
- Harkema H, Thornblade T, Dowling J, Chapman WW. Portability of ConText: An Algorithm for determining Negation, Experiencer, and Temporal Status from Clinical Reports. J Biomed Inform. 2009;42(5):839-851.

JavaConText comes with a runnable Jar file, which implements a GUI for using and testing the ConText algorithm.
JavaContext recognizes the local features of negation, temporality and experiencer, at sentence level. The concepts have to be specified as an input parameters of the algorithm.

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This package includes:
1)   Context.jar: the runnable jar file containing the GUI.
     Concepts and sentences are taken as input parameters.     
2)   ConText.zip: this file contains the sources of the ConText algorithm implementation as well as the GUI.
     It can be imported as an Eclipse Java project.
3)   README: this file.
4)   LICENSE: the Apache 2.0 license.


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Copyright 2012 Stephane Meystre, Julien Charles Thibault, Oscar Ferrandez Escamez

   Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
   You may obtain a copy of the License at

       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
   limitations under the License.


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# To run the example:  
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Double click on the Context.jar file.