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Language and Knowledge Processing
Language & Knowledge Processing
The Lister Hill Center conducts and supports research in natural language processing to extract usable and meaningful information from biomedical text.
  • SPECIALIST NLP Tools
    The SPECIALIST NLP tools help application developers with lexical variation and text analysis tasks in the biomedical domain.

  • Semantic Knowledge Representation
    Semantic Knowledge Representation research develops programs that extract usable, semantic information from biomedical text.

  • Indexing Initiative
    The Indexing Initiative explores concept-based indexing methods that can be used to automatically index text.

  • Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)
    UMLS research develops and distributes multi-purpose, electronic knowledge sources and associated lexical programs.

  • UMLS Knowledge Source Server (UMLSKS)
    UMLSKS is a set of web-based tools and a programmer interface that provides access to the biomedical terminologies found within the UMLS.

  • UMLS Semantic Network
    The UMLS Semantic Network provides a consistent categorization of all concepts represented in the UMLS Metathesaurus.

  • Medical Ontology Research
    Medical Ontology Research focuses on developing a medical ontology that will enable various knowledge processing applications to communicate with one another.