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.