meddeid-language-nl

Dutch language support for MedDeID. The package provides Dutch parsing and rendering rules, the Belgian-Dutch nl-BE post-processing profile, and versioned Belgian lookup resources used by generation and stability testing.

See the suite architecture for how language profiles fit into inference, generation, and evaluation. This repository is authoritative for Dutch behavior and lookup-resource provenance.

Installation

pip install meddeid-language-nl

Usage

from meddeid_language_nl import get_profile

profile = get_profile("nl-BE", version="1")
spans = profile.post_process_spans(raw_spans, text, metadata)
run_manifest["language_profile"] = profile.manifest()

The profile manifest records the profile contract together with the SHA-256 digest and value count of each lookup file. Generation, training, inference, and evaluation runs can therefore identify the exact locale resources used.

The package registers its profile provider in the meddeid.language_profiles Python entry-point group. Other language packages can implement the same provider interface without changing the inference package.

Subannotation capability

The same repository also contains the optional JavaScript capability @meddeid/language-nl/subannotation. It supplies nl-BE@1 semantic subannotation rules, category presentation, formatting policy, and a hashed resource manifest. meddeid-subannotate dynamically resolves this capability; the application itself remains language-neutral.

The npm package has not been published yet. From a suite source checkout:

cd ../meddeid-subannotate
npm install --no-save ../meddeid-language-nl
npm run profile -- set nl-BE@1
npm run dev

After npm publication, npm install @meddeid/language-nl replaces the local install command. The package registers nl-BE@1 through package.json#meddeid.subannotationProfiles, so the application does not need a Dutch-specific resolver branch or a module-path environment variable.

Capability developers can skip installation and persist a direct source path:

npm run profile -- set nl-BE@1 \
  --module ../meddeid-language-nl/js/subannotation-profile.js

The Python and JavaScript packages consume the same files under src/meddeid_language_nl/resources/lookup, so name, street, locality, postal, and healthcare resources have one authoritative copy and provenance record.

meddeid-language-nl is not a recognizer or model and does not include Belgian DEDUCE. DEDUCE remains an independently licensed comparison system.

Development

pip install -e '.[dev]'
pytest

Lookup provenance and source-specific terms are documented in src/meddeid_language_nl/resources/lookup/SOURCES.md.

Licence

Code is AGPL-3.0-only, with incorporated MIT-licensed code identified in NOTICE. Lookup resources retain the terms documented with their source notice.