Browsing by Subject "semantic similarity"

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    Semantic Relatedness and Similarity Reference Standards for Medical Terms
    (2018-05-03) Pakhomov, Serguei; pakh0002@umn.edu; Pakhomov, Serguei; Natural Language Processing / Information Extraction (NLP/IE) Program (Institute for Health Informatics)
    This is a collection of reference standards created to test and validate computerized approaches to quantifying the degree of semantic relatedness and similarity between medical terms. Each dataset consists of a list of term pairs that have been evaluated by various healthcare professionals (e.g., medical coders, residents, clinicians) to determine the degree of semantic relatedness and similarity. The details pertaining to each dataset are provided in the referenced publications.
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    UMLS::Similarity: Measuring the Relatedness and Similarity of Biomedical Concepts
    (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013-06) McInnes, Bridget; Liu, Ying; Pedersen, Ted; Melton, Genevieve; Pakhomov, Serguei
    UMLS::Similarity is freely available open source software that allows a user to measure the semantic similarity or relatedness of biomedical terms found in the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). It is written in Perl and can be used via a command line interface, an API, or a Web interface.