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	Unified Medical Language System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		System modifications can include changes to the construction of the databases, enhancements to how data is retrieved, and the overall structure and linkage of the data.
		The purpose of the Metathesaurus is to provide a basis of context and inter-context relationships between these various coding systems and vocabularies to provide a common basis of information exchange between the variety of clinical databases and systems.
		Kumar, Anand and Smith, Barry (2003) The Unified Medical Language System and the Gene Ontology: Some Critical Reflections, in: KI 2003: Advances in Artificial Intelligence (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2821), Berlin: Springer, 135–148.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unified_Medical_Language_System (1124 words)

	Unified Medical Language System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) is a set of knowledge sources developed by the US National Library of Medicine as experimental products.
		SNOMED thus represents an implicit hierarchy of medical terms and their relationships by means of a coding system, enabling the identification of synonyms, hyponyms and hyperonyms.
		As with the Higher-Level Ontologies discussed in the previous section, the structuring as synonyms, hyponyms and hyperonyms relate it to cognitive taxonomic models referred to in §2.7.
	www.ilc.cnr.it /EAGLES96/rep2/node24.html (667 words)

	Semantic Annotation and Ambiguity Resolution for a Cross-Lingual Medical Information System
		UMLS), can be key to the success of adapting information systems to work with more than one language, which is particularly important for making recent, relevant research quickly available to a busy physician whose first language is not English.
		The information system uses UMLS to match English language documents to German queries, by automatically annotating the medical concepts in documents and queries with the corresponding Concept Unique Identifiers from UMLS (Volk et al, 2002).
		This enables us to express the medical concepts used in particular documents in a semantic `metalanguage' which is independent of the language in which the document was originally written (much as Latin terms are tradionally used for medical concepts, independently of any one vernacular tongue).
	infomap.stanford.edu /muchmore/wsd-abstract.html (603 words)

	UMLS: Unified Medical Language System
		The Unified Medical Language System research and development program was intitiated by Donald A. Lindberg, M.D., Director of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) in 1986.
		Humphreys, BL and PL Schuyler, The Unified Medical Language System: Moving beyond the vocabulary of bibliographic retrieval.
		It is one of a number of source vocabular ies for the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), a major NLM research and development program designed to help users to retrieve and integrate information from a variety of disparate information sources.
	www.openclinical.org /medTermUmls.html (1403 words)

	Medical Professional: Informatics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The purpose of the UMLS is to aid the development of systems that help health professionals and researchers retrieve and integrate electronic biomedical information from a variety of sources.
		AMIA "is the premier association in the United States dedicated to the development and application of medical informatics in the support of patient care, teaching, research, and health care administration." AMIA's mission is "to advance the public interest through charitable, scientific, literary, and educational activities."
		The IWG's mission is to promote the development of Internet-based tools for the medical community and provide educational opportunites for IWG members.
	www.obgyn.net /english/informat/informat.htm (158 words)

	Charles Babbage Institute: RESEARCH PROGRAM> Current research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) project represents one attempt to create a standardized clinical vocabulary for organizing, classifying, and communicating clinical reasoning, diagnosis, and therapy.
		The system arose from a need for uniform terminology in hospital-wide information systems (qv) and among computer-aided diagnostic and therapeutic assistance programs.
		Terms from at least sixty known machine-readable clinical vocabularies are included in the Unified Medical Language System, as well as terminology derived from the published biomedical literature and primary clinical records.
	www.cbi.umn.edu /shp/entries/umls.html (398 words)

	[Information News:Fa:92] Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Contract Research at CPMC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) project seeks ways to direct users with information needs to the appropriate computer-based medical information sources and to assist them with the retrieval process.
		At the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, one such team consists of James J. Cimino, M.D. (The principal investigator), Paul D. Clayton, Ph.D., Stephen B. Johnson, Ph.D., and Ping Peng, Ph.D., all of the Center for Medical Informatics, and Anthony R. Aguirre, M.S., M.L.S., of the Health Sciences Library.
		The medical concepts are translated into corresponding concepts in the vocabulary used by the information source and are added to the query temp late.
	cpmcnet.columbia.edu /news/infonews/archives/info_v5n3_0003.html (363 words)

	Quintessence Publishing
		The objective of this study was to determine how well the Unified Medical Language System, the largest repository of concepts and terms in biomedicine, represents dental concepts.
		Method and materials: The dental subset of concepts was extracted from Unified Medical Language System using the software program APEX (APplication for the EXtraction of domain-specific concepts).
		The relationships contained in the Unified Medical Language System Metathesaurus were used to locate the concepts related to 12 seed terms.
	www.quintpub.com /journals/qi/archive_display_abstract.php3?journalArt=5245 (199 words)

	MI-1
		Clinical systems collect data about patient care which require controlled terms for mundane functions, such as billing or for more sophisticated ones, such as electronic medical records.
		Medical expert systems use controlled vocabularies to map patients' data to their knowledge sources in search for a solution to a patient care scenario.
		The purpose of the terminology is to provide a uniform language that will accurately describe medical, surgical, and diagnostic services, and will thereby provide an effective means for reliable nationwide communication among physicians, patients, and third parties.
	tigger.uic.edu /~thuynh/Resources/Medical_Informatics/BHIS_437-2_Main/bhis_437-2_main.html (1588 words)

	UMLS Bibliography from 1990-2002
		From French vocabulary to the Unified Medical Language System: a preliminary study.
		Assessing the feasibility of large-scale natural language processing in a corpus of ordinary medical records: a lexical analysis.
		Representation of clinical laboratory terminology in the Unified Medical Language System.
	www.nlm.nih.gov /research/umls/bibliography.html (4673 words)

	Session S58 - Unified Medical Language System Applications
		Medical experts with little or no computer science experience need tools that will enable them to develop knowledge bases and provide capabilities for directly importing knowledge not only from formal knowledge bases but also from reference terminologies.
		Adding automatically relations between concepts from a database to a knowledge base as the Unified Medical Language System can be very useful to increase the consistency of the latter one, but more interesting is to transfer qualified relationships.
		This paper describes the possibility to inherit automatically medical inter-conceptual relationships qualifiers from a disease description included into a database and to integrate it in the UMLS knowledge base.
	medicine.ucsd.edu /F2000/E001449.htm (603 words)

	Apelon helps National Library of Medicine solve terminology conflicts
		Although NLM's Unified Medical Language System has long operated under the public radar, the connections it makes are helping workers at all health care levels, said Carolyn Tilley, head of NLM's Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Management Section.
		The Unified Medical Language System got its start in 1986, when NLM director Donald Lindberg asked Congress for funds because the vocabulary problem was hindering use of computers in medicine.
		The field of medical informatics is growing fast, because drug information systems and computerized records save lives and cut costs, Tilley said.
	www.washingtontechnology.com /news/17_13/emergingtech/18975-1.html (764 words)

	UMLSKS Login
		The Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS) approach involves the development of a set of widely distributed Knowledge Sources (Metathesuarus®, Semantic Network, and SPECIALIST Lexicon) that can be used by a variety of applications to compensate for differences in the way concepts are expressed in a variety of computerized biomedical sources.
		The advantage of such an approach is that it makes the Knowledge Sources readily available, and perhaps more importantly, developers do not need to invest time and effort in understanding the structure of the data files and other details to use the UMLS data in their applications.
		In addition to the programming language change and enhancements to the user interface, the Extensible Markup Language (XML) has been incorporated into the design and used extensively throughout the implementation to provide flexibility in delivering data to users.
	umlsks.nlm.nih.gov /kss/servlet/Turbine/template/admin,user,FactSheet.vm;jsessionid=ED0AE5F1C4CDD3B7765BF6CDF292B90C.kss1 (1243 words)

	Unified Medical Language System - UMLS - Clinfowiki
		The UMLS is an effort to combine different medical vocabularies and coding systems into a unified vocabulary.
		Over the years many vocabularies have been developed to address specific needs of groups within the health care system.
		The SPECIALIST lexicon is used for natural language processing by the SPECIALIST Natural Language Processing System (NLP).
	www.informatics-review.com /wiki/index.php/Unified_Medical_Language_System_-_UMLS (310 words)

	.:: Ontology-Oriented Solutions for Knowledge-Intensive Organisations ::.
		The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) project was initiated in 1986 by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).
		It is a medical informatics messaging standard constructed to facilitate consistent sharing and usage of data across multiple "local" contexts.
		CPT was developed by the American Medical Association (AMA) in the 1960s, and soon became part of the standard code set for Medicare and Medicaid.
	etechdemo.cefriel.it /semanticweb/resources/index.htm (1282 words)

	How Does Medical World Search Work ?
		The indexer recognizes medical concepts in the pages retrieved by the Web crawler, and generates a large index of all medical concepts and words in the Web pages; this index shows in which pages each concept and word appears.
		These medical concepts are represented in the index with the full information about their relationships.
		Here, knowledge about medical concepts and their relationships is used for optimal ranking, as well as the number of times a medical concept appears in the page and the length of the page.
	www.mwsearch.com /how_does_it_work.html (586 words)

	MODAL LOGIC THEORY FOR PATHOLOGY INFERENCE. 9/20/2005.
		At a fully-computerized medical institution, such as the Baltimore VA Maryland Health Care System, pathology data are used for quality assurance of clinical services.
		Continuining this metaphor, a rare medical case is called a ZEBRA, and a tertiary-care hospital that specializes in rare medical cases, such as the University of Maryland Medical System or The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, is called a ZEBRA FARM.
		There are, for example, numerous patients in computerized systems (the 172 Veterans Affairs hospitals, serving five million honorably-discharged veteran patients, for example) which could employ a systematic mechanism for alerting providers to necessary upcoming events, such as an annual hemoglobin a1c and podiatry examination for diabetic patients.
	www.medparse.com /modlthry.htm (7214 words)

	Diseases Database - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Diseases Database is a free website that provides information about the relationships between medical conditions, symptoms, and medications.
		It directly integrates the Unified Medical Language System.
		This article about a medical organization, hospital, or association is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diseases_Database (71 words)

	Speaking medicine
		Although NLM’s Unified Medical Language System has long operated under the public radar, the connections it makes are helping workers at all health care levels, said Carolyn B. Tilley, head of NLM’s Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Management Section.
		The Unified Medical Language System got its start in 1986, when NLM director Donald A.B. Lindberg asked Congress for funds because the vocabulary problem was hindering use of computers in medicine.
		Many NLM systems, including the Web site www.clinicaltrials.gov, use the unified language behind the scenes, but most licensees are universities, libraries and other private organizations.
	www.gcn.com /print/21_29/20046-1.html (1142 words)

	MSc Project - Linking the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) to existing Drug and Medical Ontologies. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		GALEN is a large re-usable medical knowledge base of medical terminology – an 'ontology' – written in GRAIL.
		GRAIL is a knowledge representation language (Frame based system, Description Logic - take your pick of the words used) developed in the department to represent medical terminology and now also used for a range of purposes from indexing DNA and Protein sequences for BioInformatics to helping sort out the terminology used in art history.
		However, linking other biological and medical terminologies to it is an increasing problem as the Department becomes increasingly involved in biomedical applications.
	www.isbe.man.ac.uk /courses/MSc_Opportunities/msc_courses_2002/umls_linking.html (243 words)

	UMLS Concordance for a Comprehensive Pathology Text.
		Background: The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) of the U. National Library of Medicine is the world's largest system of medical concepts, with over 700,000 concept-unique-identifers (CUIs), 1.5 million synonyms, and partial translations into over twenty languages in the year 2000 edition.
		Conclusion: Results suggest that UMLS is a highly inclusive concept system for human pathology, with 91.9% exactly or approximately matched concepts in a comprehensive pathology outline.
		Thus, the UMLS appears to be a sufficiently rich concept system for inter-institutional exchange of pathology data.
	www.medparse.com /apep00op.htm (523 words)

	Meaning of PDD term "UMLS - Unified Medical Language System"
		The UMLS is the National Library of Medicine Unified Medical Language System.
		The sources of interest include: descriptions of the biomedical literature, clinical records, factual databanks, knowledge-based systems, and directories of people and organizations.
		The variety of vocabularies and classifications used in different sources is a significant barrier to the use of machine-readible sources by health professions and biomedical researches and to the development of effective search interfaces that might assist these users."
	www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov /PDD/Glossary/UMLS.html (161 words)

	Evaluation of the Unified Medical Language System as a Medical Knowledge Source -- Bodenreider et al. 5 (1): 76 -- ...
		Evaluation of the Unified Medical Language System as a Medical Knowledge Source -- Bodenreider et al.
		Evaluation of the Unified Medical Language System as a Medical Knowledge Source
		Language System (UMLS) as a medical knowledge source for the representation
	www.jamia.org /cgi/content/abstract/5/1/76 (453 words)

	EServer TC Library: Unified Medical Language System
		In 1986, the National Library of Medicine (NLM), began a long term research and development project to build a Unified Medical Language System ® (UMLS ®).
		The purpose of the UMLS is to aid the development of systems that help health professionals and researchers retrieve and integrate electronic biomedical information from a variety of sources and to make it easy for users to link disparate information systems, including computer-based patient records, bibliographic databases, factual databases, and expert systems.
		The UMLS project develops 'Knowledge Sources' that can be used by a wide variety of applications programs to overcome retrieval problems caused by differences in terminology and the scattering of relevant information across many databases.
	tc.eserver.org /14154.html (138 words)

	DIMDI - UMLS Unified Medical Language System
		The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) contains medical terms and the semantics between them.
		The terms have roots in about 100 heterogeneous concept-based classification systems and medical vocabularies in 15 languages at present.
		Since the German-language entries are stored in the Metathesaurus without umlauts and diacritics, their use in computer systems is somewhat limited.
	www.dimdi.de /dynamic/en/klassi/mesh_umls/umls (398 words)

	Table for Clinical Queries using Research Methodology Filters
		The main reason for using the other two systems is based on the superior searching capacity of the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) which is used in these two systems.
		Although it is a non-mesh heading, the system is able to map the heading to the proper MESH heading and to explode it, as well as to and/or the heading with the text words "heart attack" in addition to the proper MESH heading "myocardial infarction" in both PubMed and Internet Grateful Med.
		The bibliography, Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS®), covers the structure and semantics of the UMLS Knowledge Sources, their development and maintenance, and assessments of their coverage and utility for particular purposes, and the full range of UMLS applications.
	sun3.lib.uci.edu /~cmriggs/melvyl/medline.html (1415 words)

	Medical World Search - Awards and Reviews
		Medical World Search already lists eight sites with information about Viagra, a drug to treat male sexual impotence, even though the pill went on the market only early this month.
		Medical World search on Jan/20/98 was awarded the "Bytes and Bits Pick of the Week Award" for providing a valuable services to Internet viewers.
		One of Medical World Search's most notable features is that it intelligently adds thesaurus terms to a query based on the query terms.
	www.mwsearch.com /awards_and_reviews.html (1481 words)

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