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.
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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