# Anyone tried using MedCAT on data which is not in english?

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**Created:** [March 31, 2022, 6:07pm UTC](https://discourse.cogstack.org/t/anyone-tried-using-medcat-on-data-which-is-not-in-english/35 "2022-03-31T18:07:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![anthony.shek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b782af/32.png) [@anthony.shek](https://discourse.cogstack.org/u/anthony.shek)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 6:07pm UTC](https://discourse.cogstack.org/t/anyone-tried-using-medcat-on-data-which-is-not-in-english/35/1 "2022-03-31T18:07:33Z")

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Has anyone tried to use MedCAT on data which in is another language? What are you experiences? Would love to know!

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**Author:** ![Jthteo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Jthteo](https://discourse.cogstack.org/u/Jthteo)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 2:43pm UTC](https://discourse.cogstack.org/t/anyone-tried-using-medcat-on-data-which-is-not-in-english/35/2 "2022-04-01T14:43:07Z")

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@SanderTan said the following on a Github thread as they had been working with Dutch diacritics:

> indeed we made models for Dutch language from public UMLS and SNOMED data. We documented our methods in an internal repo. We’re looking into open-sourcing this, with a few changes it might be fairly easy to generate something similar for other languages. In the meantime, you could look into downloading the UMLS database, loading it in a MySQL database, and filter the concepts for your language and source vocabularies from the MRCONSO table, and put them in the MedCAT format described at [https://github.com/CogStack/MedCAT/tree/master/examples](https://github.com/CogStack/MedCAT/tree/master/examples).

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**Author:** ![anthony.shek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b782af/32.png) [@anthony.shek](https://discourse.cogstack.org/u/anthony.shek)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2022, 5:04pm UTC](https://discourse.cogstack.org/t/anyone-tried-using-medcat-on-data-which-is-not-in-english/35/3 "2022-04-03T17:04:23Z")

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Interesting… would love to know more!

I guess as long as there is a terminology available in the respective language and a [pre-trained spaCy model](https://spacy.io/models) in that language, MedCAT should pretty much work out of the box. There is a Multi-language spaCy model available but I’ve yet to check it out.