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Umls::Association - Measuring The Association Between Biomedical Terms, Keith B. Herbert
Umls::Association - Measuring The Association Between Biomedical Terms, Keith B. Herbert
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UMLS::Association - A Semantic Association Framework for Biomedical Texts
Keith Herbert
Natural Language Processing Lab, Department of Computer Science
Introduction
We present UMLS::Association, a software package to explore the semantic association of biomedical terms with applications for literature-based discovery. Literature-based discovery is an endeavour to ”connect the dots” for scientists between the topics of their research and those of unexpected relevance. However, many approaches rely on the exact wording for the ideas in the research papers being analyzed. The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) provides a way to map natural language phrases in these papers to sequences of abstract yet …