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Consumer Health Terminology Acquisition
from UMLS Metathesaurs and MEDLINE N-gram Set
I. Introduction
In addition to terms in the Lexicon, terms from UMLS are retrieved as medical terms and for a better coverage. Lexicon and this retrieved medical terms are used together as dictionary in cSpell.
II. Algorithm for Medical Terms
Medical terms are generated by the following steps:
Category | Semantic Types |
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Problem |
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Interventions |
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Drugs |
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Anatomy |
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population |
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shell>cd ${PRE_PROCESS}/bin
2017AB
3
35
${PRE_PROCESS}/data/Umls/${RELEASE_AX}/outData/umlsDicBySt.data.ewLc
shell>cd ${PRE_PROCESS}/bin
2017
4
45
46
${PRE_PROCESS}/data/Baseline/outData/noCui.ewLc.data
shell>cd ${PRE_PROCESS}/bin
2017
5
53
54
56
55
57
60
${PreProcess}/data/LexBuild/${YEAR}/outData/cCandidates.data
61
${PreProcess}/data/LexBuild/${YEAR}/outData/cCandidates.data.gbp