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