Rewriting and suppressing UMLS terms for improved biomedical term identification

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Identification of terms is essential for biomedical text mining.. We concentrate here on the use of vocabularies for term identification, specifically the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). To make the UMLS more suitable for bio...

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Main Authors: Hettne Kristina M, van Mulligen Erik M, Schuemie Martijn J, Schijvenaars Bob JA, Kors Jan A
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-03-01
Series:Journal of Biomedical Semantics
Online Access:http://www.jbiomedsem.com/content/1/1/5