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Sub-Term Mapping Tools

Release Notes

These release notes summarize main requirements and features for the Sub-Term Mapping Tools (STMT) Java.

Version 2013+

The 2013 release is the first version of the Sub-Term Mapping Tools. The generic tool (STMT) includes features:

  • to find all sub-terms
  • to find all prefix sub-terms
  • to find the longest prefix sub-term
  • to find all sub-term patterns
  • to find all permutations of synonymous sub-term substitutions
for a term in a user specified corpus. In addition to the STMT, the package also include following tools with preloaded corpus.
  • LexItem Sub-Term Finder (LSF):
    • Corpus: The Specialist Lexicon
    • Features:
      • to find if a terms is in the Lexicon
      • to find all sub-terms are in the Lexicon
      • to find all prefix sub-terms are in the Lexicon
      • to find the longest prefix sub-term in the Lexicon
  • Synonym Mapping Tool (SMT):
    • Corpus: synonymous terms collected in UMLS-CORE project
    • Features:
      • Map a term to UMLS-Metathesaurus concept (CUI) and find the associated preferred term by query expansion with synonymous sub-term substitutions
  • Mapping Tool (MT):
    • Map a term to CUIs
    • Map a term to EUIs
    • Map a CUI to preferred term
    • Map a term to synonyms
    • Map a term to recursive synonyms
  • Normalization Tool (NT):
    • LexItem Norm
    • Lvg Norm
    • Synonym Norm