2019-12-04 - SLPG Meeting

2019-12-04 - SLPG Meeting

Date & Time

20:00 UTC Wednesday 4th December 2019

Location

Zoom meeting: https://snomed.zoom.us/j/471420169

Goals

  • To progress work on

    • URIs

    • Templates

    • ECL

    • Query language

Attendees 

  • Chair: @Former user (Deleted)

  • Project Group: @Daniel Karlsson (Unlicensed)@michael lawley@Rob Hausam

Apologies

  •  @Anne Randorff Højen@Ed Cheetham

Agenda and Meeting Notes

Description

Owner

Notes

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Welcome and agenda

@Former user (Deleted)

 

Concrete values

@Former user (Deleted)

Boolean added to draft SCG, ECL, STS and ETL specifications

PLEASE REVIEW BEFORE NEXT MEETING!

  • Draft SCG (v2.4) - Compositional Grammar - Specification and Guide

    •  

      • 1. Introduction → History

      • 3.2 Representation of clinical Meanings → Requirement M4

      • 4. Logical Model

      • 4.1 Details

      • 5.1 Normative Specification

      • 5.2 Informative Comments

      • 6.6 Examples → Expressions with Concrete Values

  • Draft ECL (v1.4) - Expression Constraint Language - Specification and Guide

    •  

      • 1. Introduction → History

      • 3.2 Expression Constraint and Query Requirements

      • 3.3 Concept Model Requirements

      • 4. Logical Model

      • 4.1 Details

      • 5.1 Brief Syntax (Normative)

      • 5.2 Long Syntax (Informative)

      • 5.3 Informative Comments

      • 6.2 Refinements

  • Draft STS/ETL (v1.1) - Template Syntax Specification

    •  

      • 1. Introduction → History

      • 4. Logical Model

      • 4.1 UML Class Diagram

      • 5.1 Normative Specification (boolean changes in blue / other proposed changes in red)

      • 5.2 Informative Comments (only boolean changes made)

      • 6.1 Expression Template Language

      • 8.2 Typed Replacement Slots → Concrete Values

      • 8.3 Constrained Replacement Slots → Value List Constraints? (currently unchanged)

URIs

@Peter Williams & @Former user (Deleted)

PLEASE REVIEW BEFORE NEXT MEETING!

Draft URI standard for review - URI Standard

  • 2.1 URIs for Editions and Versions (formatting and examples only)

  • 2.2 URIs for Components and Reference Set Members (formatting and examples only)

  • 2.3 Version-Relative Component URIs (formatting and examples only)

  • 2.4 URIs for Modules (formatting and examples only)

  • 2.5 URIs for Properties (formatting and examples only)

  • 2.6 URIs for Language Syntaxes

  • 2.7 URIs for Language Instances

  • 2.8 URIs for Modelling Resources

  • 3.1 Resolving SNOMED CT URIs

Expression Templates

@Peter Williams

  • Any updates?

  • WIP version - https://snomed.atlassian.net/wiki/display/WIPSTS/Template+Syntax+Specification

    •  

      • Added a 'default' constraint to each replacement slot - e.g. default (72673000 |Bone structure (body structure)|)

      • Enabling 'slot references' to be used within the value constraint of a replacement slot - e.g. [[ +id (<< 123037004 |Body structure| MINUS << $findingSite2) @findingSite1]]

      • Allowing repeating role groups to be referenced using an array - e.g. $rolegroup[1] or $rolegroup[!=SELF]

      • Allow reference to 'SELF' in role group arrays

      • Adding 'sameValue' and 'allOrNone' constraints to information slots - e.g. sameValue ($site), allOrNone ($occurrence)

      • See changes in red here: 5.1. Normative Specification

Examples:

[[+id]]: [[1..*] @my_group sameValue(morphology)] { |Finding site| = [[ +id (<<123037004 |Body structure (body structure)| MINUS << $site[! SELF ] ) @site ]] , |Associated morphology| = [[ +id @my_morphology ]]}

  • Implementation feedback on draft updates to Expression Template Language syntax

    • Use cases from the Quality Improvement Project:

      • Multiple instances of the same role group, with some attributes the same and others different. Eg same morphology, potentially different finding sites.

Note that QI Project is coming from a radically different use case. Instead of filling template slots, we're looking at existing content and asking "exactly how does this concept fail to comply to this template?"

For discussion:

Is it correct to say either one of the cardinality blocks is redundant? What are the implications of 1..1 on either side? This is less obvious for the self grouped case.

Road Forward for SI

  1. Generate the parser from the ABNF and implement in the Template Service

  2. User Interface to a) allow users to specify template at runtime b) tabular (auto-completion) lookup → STL

  3. Template Service to allow multiple templates to be specified for alignment check (aligns to none-off)

  4. Output must clearly indicate exactly what feature of concept caused misalignment, and what condition was not met.

Additional note: QI project is no longer working in subhierarchies. Every 'set' of concepts is selected via ECL. In fact most reports should now move to this way of working since a subhierarchy is the trivial case. For a given template, we additionally specify the "domain" to which it should be applied via ECL. This is much more specific than using the focus concept which is usually the PPP eg Disease.

FYI @Michael Chu

Description Templates

@Kai Kewley

  • Any updates?

  • Previous discussion (in Malaysia)

    •  

      • Overview of current use

      • Review of General rules for generating descriptions

        • Removing tags, words

        • Conditional removal of words

        • Automatic case significance

        • Generating PTs from target PTs

        • Reordering terms

      • Mechanism for sharing general rules - inheritance? include?

      • Description Templates for translation

      • Status of planned specification

Expression Constraint Language

@Former user (Deleted)

STILL TO DO:

  • Agreement in Malaysia - ECL will add the following term searching syntax (no regex - just wild card and word prefix any order):

{{ term  =  [ termSearchType : ] "String", languageCode = [langCode] }}

Term Search Type

  1.  

    1. Wild Card Match (collation) - e.g.

  2.  

    •  

      • {{  term = wild:"*heart*“ }}

      • {{  term = wild (sv):"*hjärta*“ }}

    1. Word Prefix Any Order - e.g.

    •  

      • {{ term = match:“hear att” }}

    1. Default (word prefix any order) - e.g.

    •  

      • {{ term = "hear att" }}

      • {{ term = "*heart*“ }}

Potential Examples

  •  

    • << 64572001 |Disease| {{ term = “heart”}}

    • << 64572001 |Disease| {{ term = “heart”, languageCode = "en"}}

    • << 64572001 |Disease| {{ term = “heart”, languageCode = "en"}} AND << 64572001 |Disease| {{ term = “hjärta”, languageCode = "sv"}}

    • << 64572001 |Disease| {{ term = “heart”, languageCode = "en"}} {{ term = “hjärta”, languageCode = "sv"}}

    • << 64572001 |Disease| {{ term = “heart”, languageCode = "en"}} OR << 64572001 |Disease| {{ term = “hjärta", languageCode = "sv"}}

    • << 64572001 |Disease| {{ (term = “heart”, languageCode = "en") OR (term = “hjärta", languageCode = "sv")}}

    • (<< 64572001 |Disease|: |Associated morphology| = *) {{ term = “heart”, languageCode = "en", }} {{ term = “hjärta", languageCode = "sv"}}

    • (<< 64572001 |Disease| {{ term = “*cardio*” }}) MINUS (<< 64572001 |Disease| {{ term != “*heart*” }})

    • Recommendation to be made on (based on investigation of grammar):

      • << 64572001 |Disease| {{ term = “heart”, languageCode = "en"}} AND {{ term = “hjärta”, languageCode = "sv"}}

      • << 64572001 |Disease| ( {{ term = “heart”, languageCode = "en"}} OR {{ term = “hjärta”, languageCode = "sv"}} )

      • << 64572001 |Disease| ( {{ term = “heart”, languageCode = "en"}} MINUS {{ term = “hjärta”, languageCode = "sv"}} )

Use Cases

  •  

    • Intentionally define a reference set for chronic disease. Starting point was ECL with modelling; This misses concepts modelled using the pattern you would expect. So important in building out that reference set.

    • Authors quality assuring names of concepts

    • Checking translations, retranslating. Queries for a concept that has one word in Swedish, another word in English

    • AU use case would have at most 3 or 4 words in match

    • Consistency of implementation in different terminology services

    • Authoring use cases currently supported by description templates

    • A set of the "*ectomy"s and "*itis"s

Questions

  •  

    • Do we include 'typeId' - e.g. << 64572001 |Disease| {{ D.term = “*heart*”, typeId =  900000000000013009 |Synonym| }}

      • NO

    • Do we include 'type' - e.g. << 64572001 |Disease| {{ D.term = “*heart*”, D.type synonym }}

      • NO

    • Do we include 'languageCode' - e.g. << 64572001 |Disease| {{ D.term = “*heart*”, D.type synonym, D.languageCode = “en” }}

      • YES

    • Do we include 'caseSignificanceId' - e.g. << 64572001 |Disease| {{ D.term = “*Heart*”, D.caseSignificanceId = 900000000000017005 |case sensitive|}}

      • NO

    • Do we include 'caseSignificance' - e.g. << 64572001 |Disease| {{ D.term = “*Heart*”, D.caseSignificance = sensitive }}

      • NO

    • Do we include 'language' and 'version' - e.g. << 64572001 |Disease| {{ term = “*heart*” }} VERSION = http://…, LANGUAGE = (999001881000000108|Gastro LRS|, |GB English|)

      • NO

    • Do we include syntactic sugar - e.g.

      • << 64572001 |Disease| {{ preferredTerm = “*heart*”, languageRefSet = en-gb}}

      • << 64572001 |Disease| {{ fullySpecifiedTerm = “*heart*”, languageRefSet=en-gb}}

      • << 64572001 |Disease| {{ acceptableTerm = “*heart*”, languageRefSet = en-gb}}

      • << 64572001 |Disease| {{ preferredTerm = “*heart*”}} FROM  version = X, language = Y

      • NO

    • Do we use/require the "D" at the start of "term"?

      • NO

    • Packaging - How do we package this extension to ECL

      • A new version of ECL - version 1.5

Querying Refset Attributes

@Former user (Deleted)

Proposed syntax to support querying and return of alternative refset attributes (To be included in the SNOMED Query Language)

  • Example use cases

    • Execution of maps from international substance concepts to AMT substance concepts

    • Find the anatomical parts of a given anatomy structure concept (in |Anatomy structure and part association reference set)

    • Find potential replacement concepts for an inactive concept in record

    • Find the order of a given concept in an Ordered component reference set

    • Find a concept with a given order in an Ordered component reference set

  • Potential syntax to consider

    • ? notation + Filter refinement

      • |Anatomy structure and part association refset| ? |targetComponentId|

      • |Anatomy structure and part association refset| ? |referencedComponent| (Same as ^ |Anatomy structure and part association refset|)
        (|Anatomy structure and part association refset| {{ |referencedComponent| = << |Upper abdomen structure}} )? |targetComponentId|

      • ( |Anatomy structure and part association refset| {{ |targetComponentId| = << |Upper abdomen structure}} ) ? |referencedComponent|

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