UMLS-Core: Synonym Files
File | Descriptions | Notes |
---|---|---|
acronym_edited.txt | acronyms and abbreviations | acronym|upper case|punctuation |
british.txt | British English | spelling varaints|lower case|punctuation |
ecri.txt | ECRI (Emergency Care Research Institute) Medical Device | mixed case|multiple sysnonym pairs |
greco-latin.txt | Greco-Latin | lower case|bi-direction |
lvg.txt | Lexical Tools | mixed case|genitive|punctuation|bi-direction |
ramiller-prune_kwf.txt | Ramiller (after human review) | mixed case|genitive|punctuation|multiple sysnonym pairs |
To_add_UMLS_syn_consolidated.txt | To be added to UMLS | mixed case|punctuation|multiple sysnonym pairs |
UMLS_syn_consolidated.txt | UMLS | lowercase|punctuation |
Variations | Standardization | Lvg flow | Notes and Examples |
---|---|---|---|
genitive | remove genitive | -f:g |
|
parenthetic plural from | remove (s), (es), (ies) | -f:rs | This is needed to standardize the term (not the synonym) |
punctuation | replace with space | -f:o |
|
Upper, lower, mixed cases | lower case | -f:l | |
spelling variants | use citation form instead | -f:Ct | |
inflectional variants | use citation form instead | -f:Ct | |
stopWord | do nothing | ||
suffixes | manually remove them |
| |
recursive synonyms | not implemented |
| |
bi-direction | all synonym pairs are bi-directional |
| |
multiple synonym pairs | convert to all possible double pairs |
| |
redundancy | remove if the normalized synonyms are the same. This remove redundant synonyms which is taken care in Norm, such as spelling variants, inflectional variants, etc. |
|
Skip