Paper Info
Title
UMLS-Interface and UMLS-Similarity : Open Source Software for Measuring Paths and Semantic Similarity
Abstract
A number of computational measures for determin- ing semantic similarity between pairs of biomedical concepts have been developed using various stan- dards and programming platforms. In this paper, we introduce two new open-source frameworks based on the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). These frameworks consist of the UMLS-Similarity and UMLS-Interface packages. UMLS-Interface provides path information about UMLS concepts. UMLS- Similarity calculates the semantic similarity between UMLS concepts using several previously developed measures and can be extended to include new mea- sures. We validate the functionality of these frame- works by reproducing the results from previous work. Our frameworks constitute a significant contribution to the field of biomedical Natural Language Process- ing by providing a common development and testing platform for semantic similarity measures based on the UMLS.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2009
AMIA
natural language processing,semantics,unified medical language system
Field
DocType
Volume
Semantic similarity,Information retrieval,Computer science,Software,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Open source software,Unified Medical Language System,Semantic computing,Semantics
Conference
2009
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
64
2.32
12
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bridget T. McInnes128023.66
Ted Pedersen22738220.47
Serguei V S Pakhomov347140.62