Sub-Term Mapping Tools, 2020+ Release:

01/01/2020

The Sub-Term Mapping Tools (STMT) is a generic tool set that provides comprehensive sub-term related 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 (query expansion)

for a term in a user specified corpus.

In addition to the generic tool (STMT), this tool set also includes following tools with preloaded corpus:

• LexItem Sub-Term Finder (LSF):
  • Corpus: The Specialist Lexicon
  • Features:
    • to find if a term 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

The first public version of STMT is now available via an open source license agreement.
Download Sub-Term Mapping Tools, 2013+ versions!

Development of Sub-Term Mapping Tools (STMT), Lu, Chris J. and Browne, Allen C.
AMIA 2012 Annual Symposium, Chicago, IL, November 3-7, 2012, p. 1845
AMIA, 2012 Distinguished Poster Awards