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The Role of the UMLS in Vocabulary Control

06/07/2000


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The Role of the UMLS in Vocabulary Control

Observations

Synonymy that is "Web-Scale"

UMLS Purpose

UMLS Focus Conceptual Connections

UMLS Knowledge Sources

UMLS Knowledge Sources Distribution

1999 UMLS Metathesaurus

UMLS Metathesaurus Finely Granular Concepts

UMLS Source Vocabularies

Metathesaurus Construction The Scalable Methodology

Metathesaurus Characteristics (1)

Current MeSH -- Organized by Preferred Term

UMLS Metathesaurus -- Organized by Concept

Websites Using UMLS

PPT Slide

Cautions in Searching

UMLS Summary

PPT Slide

Author: Stuart J. Nelson

Email: nelson@nlm.nih.gov

Home Page: www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh


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