Unified Medical Language System

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Planning and storage space for research and activities of Open Medicine Initiative

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Unified Medical Language System #14

Open bennidi opened 9 years ago

bennidi commented 9 years ago

From @bennidi on July 18, 2014 19:31

The UMLS (Unified Medical Language System) implements medical ontologies and a mapping framework for natural language processing to capture similarities between medical concepts. It is meant to resolve ambiguities by providing a canonical model of medical concepts.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/

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bennidi commented 9 years ago

There exists an open source framework that uses the UMLS data to implement automatic similarity detection. http://umls-similarity.sourceforge.net/