The SPECIALIST Lexicon

Annual Lexicon Release

This page describes annual release procedures for the SPECIALIST LEXICON. This Lexicon is included in the Metathesaurus DVD release.

Location

• Development: ${LEXICON_DIR}/data/${YEAR}
• Backup: ${BACKUP_DIR}/Releases/UMLS/${YEAR}_pre_release/LEX
• Web: ${WWW_DIR}/Apache/apache/docs/LexSysGroup/Projects/lexicon/${YEAR}/release
• Internal Deploy: /net/lexdev/export/home/lu/Backup/Releases/UMLS/${YEAR}_pre_release

• Internal release: ${BACKUP_DIR}/Releases/UMLS/${YEAR}_pre_release
• Official release: ${BACKUP_DIR}/Releases/UMLS/${YEAR}_AA_release

Preparation steps

1. Freeze LEXICON and inflVars from LexBuild

2. Prepare Internal release: ${YEAR}_pre_release/LEX

   File Name	Source	Owner
   LEX/DOCS
   DOCS/lvg/index.html	previous year	Chris
   DOCS/lvg/docs	${LVG_DIR}/lvg${YEAR}/docs	Chris
   DOCS/techrpt.pdf	previous year (if no change)	Amanda
   LEX/LEX_DB
   LEX_DB/DM.DB	${LVG}/data/tables/derivation.data (after 2012+)	Chris
   LEX_DB/NC.DB	previous year (if no change)	Chris
   LEX_DB/SM.DB	${LVG}/data/tables/synonym.data (after 2016+)	Chris
   LEX/LEX_PGMS
   LEX_PGMS/lvg${YEAR}.tgz	$WWW_DIR/Apache/apache/docs/LexSysGroup/Projects/lvg/${YEAR}/release/lvg${YEAR}.tgz	Chris
   LEX
   LEXICON	${LEXICON_DIR}/data/${YEAR}/data/LEXICON.frozen	Chris
   LRABR	${LEXICON_DIR}/data/${YEAR}/tables.frozen/LRABR	Chris
   LRAGR	${LEXICON_DIR}/data/${YEAR}/tables.frozen/LRAGR	Chris
   LRCMP	${LEXICON_DIR}/data/${YEAR}/tables.frozen/LRCMP	Chris
   LRFIL	${LEXICON_DIR}/data/${YEAR}/tables.frozen/LRFIL	Chris
   LRFIL.crlf	${LEXICON_DIR}/data/${YEAR}/tables.frozen/LRFIL.crlf	Chris
   LRFLD	Previous year (if no change)	Chris
   LRMOD	${LEXICON_DIR}/data/${YEAR}/tables.frozen/LRMOD	Chris
   LRNOM	${LEXICON_DIR}/data/${YEAR}/tables.frozen/LRNOM	Chris
   LRPRN	${LEXICON_DIR}/data/${YEAR}/tables.frozen/LRPRN	Chris
   LRPRP	${LEXICON_DIR}/data/${YEAR}/tables.frozen/LRPRP	Chris
   LRSPL	${LEXICON_DIR}/data/${YEAR}/tables.frozen/LRSPL	Chris
   LRTRM	${LEXICON_DIR}/data/${YEAR}/tables.frozen/LRTRM	Chris
   LRTYP	${LEXICON_DIR}/data/${YEAR}/tables.frozen/LRTYP	Chris
   LRWD	${LEXICON_DIR}/data/${YEAR}/tables.frozen/LRWD	Chris
   LEX/MISC
   MISC/inflection.table	${LEXICON_DIR}/data/${YEAR}/tables.frozen/inflection.table	Chris
   MISC/inflVars.data	${LEXICON_DIR}/data/${YEAR}/tables.frozen/inflVars.data	Chris
   MISC/LRFIL	${LEXICON_DIR}/data/${YEAR}/tables.frozen/LRFIL	Chris
   MISC/LRFIL.crlf	${LEXICON_DIR}/data/${YEAR}/tables.frozen/LRFIL.crlf	Chris
   MISC/prevariants	${LEXICON_DIR}/data/${YEAR}/tables.frozen/prevariants	Chris
   LEX/NUMBERS
   NUMBERS/NRNUM	previous year (if no change)	Chris
   NUMBERS/NRVAR	previous year (if no change)	Chris
   NUMBERS/number.entries	previous year (if no change)	Chris
   NUMBERS/number.grammar.txt	previous year (if no change)	Chris

3. Prepare ${YEAR}_pre_release/LEX_Extra
   • ASCII
   • XML

4. Prepare ${YEAR}_pre_release/LEX.tgz
   • Items that need to wait for the Lexical Tools
     • ./DOCS/lvg/docs
     • ./LEX_PGMS/lvg${YEAR}.tgz

   • shell> cd ${BACKUP_DIR}/Releases/UMLS/${YEAR}_pre_release
   • shell> gtar -czvf LEX.tgz LEX
   • send to OCCS for the internal release (after 2008)

5. Prepare ${YEAR}_AA_release/LEX_Extra
   • cd ${BACKUP_DIR}/Releases/UMLS
   • cp -rp ${YEAR}_pre_release ${YEAR}_AA_release

   • rm -rf LEX.tgz
   • update LEX/DOCS/lvg/docs (from ${LVG}/docs)
   • update LEX/LEX_DB/DM.DB (from ${LVG}/data/tables/derivation.data)
   • update LEX/LEX_PGMS/lvg${YEAR}.tgz (from lvg${YEAR}.tgz)

   • create LEX.tgz
   • send to OCCS for the offical release (after 2008)

6. Update web site with ${YEAR}_AA_release/LEX_Extra
   • cp -rp ${YEAR}_AA_release/LEX.tgz ${LEXICON_WEB}/${YEAR}/release/LEX.tgz
   • cp -rp ${YEAR}_AA_release/LEX ${LEXICON_WEB}/${YEAR}/release/LEX
   • cp -rp ${YEAR}_AA_release/LEX_Extra/ASCII ${LEXICON_WEB}/${YEAR}/release/LEX/.
   • cp -rp ${YEAR}_AA_release/LEX_Extra/XML ${LEXICON_WEB}/${YEAR}/release/LEX/.