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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… 
National Institutes of Health

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2017
2017
The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) is a long-term research and development effort of the National Library of Medicine… 
2007
2007
Detailed instruction is described for mapping unstructured, free text data into common biomedical concepts (drugs, diseases… 
2007
2007
OBJECTIVES The UMLS constitutes the largest existing collection of medical terms. However, little has been published about the… 
2004
2004
We experimented with introduction of medical ontology and other background knowledge into the process of association mining. The… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
We developed and evaluated a UMLS Metathesaurus Co-occurrence mining algorithm to connect medications and diseases they may treat… 
1999
1999
Ontologies and semantic frameworks can be used to improve the accuracy and expressiveness of natural language processing for the… 
1998
1998
The world's foremost medical literature is written in English, yet much of the world does not speak English as a primary language… 
Review
1991
Review
1991
A unified interprocedural program representation, the unified interprocedural graph (UIG) is presented; it combines the features… 
1991
1991
The goal of the UMLS Project is to give practitioners and researchers easy access to machine-readable information from diverse…