Getting definitions and synonyms for the resulting cui

Georgetown-IR-Lab / QuickUMLS

System for Medical Concept Extraction and Linking

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Getting definitions and synonyms for the resulting cui #53

Closed vegetakarthhik closed 4 years ago

vegetakarthhik commented 4 years ago

Hi, I am new to UMLS. We are working on healthcare related use case. UMLS has those short definitions for symptoms which will be very useful to augment out data and improve model performance. But I am able to get only cui from quickumls. Is there a way to extract the corresponding definitions and synonyms using quick umls pacakage?

soldni commented 4 years ago

Hi @vegetakarthhik,

Definitions are not included by design; I tried to keep the index as small as possible to improve memory efficiency. You can obtain definitions from the MRDEF.RRF file when using UMLS's Rich Release Format.

Best, Luca