Title
Methodology for Creating UMLS Content Views Appropriate for Biomedical Natural Language Processing
Abstract
Given the growth in UMLS Metathesaurus content and the consequent growth in language complexity, it is not surprising that NLP applications that depend on the UMLS are experiencing increased difficulty in maintaining adequate levels of performance. This phenomenon underscores the need for UMLS content views which can support NLP processing of both the biomedical literature and clinical text. We report on experiments designed to provide guidance as to whether to adopt a conservative vs. an aggressive approach to the construction of UMLS content views. We tested three conservative views and two new aggressive views against two NLP applications and found that the conservative views consistently performed better for the literature application, but the most aggressive view performed best for the clinical application.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2008
AMIA
natural language processing,experience design,unified medical language system,documentation
Field
DocType
Citations 
Computer science,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Documentation,Umls metathesaurus,Language complexity,Unified Medical Language System
Conference
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.06
4
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alan R. Aronson12551260.67
James G. Mork264765.22
Aurélie Névéol356550.50
Sonya E Shooshan414113.18
Dina Demner Fushman51717147.70