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Unified Medical Language System

Known as: NLM UMLS, UMLS, Unified Medical Language 
The purpose of NLM's Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) is to facilitate the development of computer systems that behave as if they "understand… 
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2017
2017
Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS®) Project
The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) is a long-term research and development effort of the National Library of Medicine… 
2007
2007
Mining biomedical data using MetaMap Transfer (MMtx) and the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS).
Detailed instruction is described for mapping unstructured, free text data into common biomedical concepts (drugs, diseases… 
2007
2007
Analysis of a Study of the Users, Uses, and Future Agenda of the UMLS
OBJECTIVES The UMLS constitutes the largest existing collection of medical terms. However, little has been published about the… 
2004
2004
Context-based task ontologies for clinical guidelines.
Evidence-based medicine relies on the execution of clinical practice guidelines and protocols. A great deal of effort has been… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Initializing the VA medication reference terminology using UMLS metathesaurus co-occurrences
We developed and evaluated a UMLS Metathesaurus Co-occurrence mining algorithm to connect medications and diseases they may treat… 
1999
1999
Knowledge representation and indexing using the unified medical language system.
Ontologies and semantic frameworks can be used to improve the accuracy and expressiveness of natural language processing for the… 
1998
1998
SAPHIRE International: a tool for cross-language information retrieval
The world's foremost medical literature is written in English, yet much of the world does not speak English as a primary language… 
1992
1992
Representation of nursing terminology in the UMLS Metathesaurus: a pilot study.
To see whether the National Library of Medicine's Metathesaurus (tm) includes terminology relevant to clinical nursing practice… 
Review
1991
Review
1991
A unified interprocedural program representation for a maintenance environment
A unified interprocedural program representation, the unified interprocedural graph (UIG) is presented; it combines the features… 
1991
1991
Assessing and enhancing the value of the UMLS Knowledge Sources.
The goal of the UMLS Project is to give practitioners and researchers easy access to machine-readable information from diverse… 
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