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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… (More)

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1946-2018
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Unified Medical Language System
Subject Headings
National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
standards characteristics
UMLS Metathesaurus
legislation & jurisprudence

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2004
Highly Cited
2004
The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS): integrating biomedical terminology
The Unified Medical Language System (http://umlsks.nlm.nih.gov) is a repository of biomedical vocabularies developed by the US… (More)
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2004
2004
Mapping the Gene Ontology Into the Unified Medical Language System
We have recently mapped the Gene Ontology (GO), developed by the Gene Ontology Consortium, into the National Library of Medicine… (More)
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2004
Highly Cited
2004
Automated encoding of clinical documents based on natural language processing.
OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to develop a method based on natural language processing (NLP) that automatically maps an… (More)
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2001
Highly Cited
2001
Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology
In recent years the development of ontologies—explicit formal specifications of the terms in the domain and relations among them… (More)
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2001
Highly Cited
2001
Effective mapping of biomedical text to the UMLS Metathesaurus: the MetaMap program
The UMLS Metathesaurus, the largest thesaurus in the biomedical domain, provides a representation of biomedical knowledge… (More)
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2000
2000
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… (More)
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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
The Unified Medical Language System: an informatics research collaboration.
In 1986, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) assembled a large multidisciplinary, multisite team to work on the Unified… (More)
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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Viewpoint: The Unified Medical Language System: Toward a Collaborative Approach for Solving Terminologic Problems
The approach taken by the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), in which disparate terminology systems are integrated, has… (More)
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Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
The Unified Medical Language System.
In 1986, the National Library of Medicine began a long-term research and development project to build the Unified Medical… (More)
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1990
Highly Cited
1990
The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) of the National Library of Medicine.
This article describes the rationale for a Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) being developed by the National Library of… (More)
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