• Training Documents

This page lists documents and references for LSG lexicographers.

I. Lexicon

• The SPECIALIST Lexicon Technical Reports

• Rules for Lexicon Terms: Words and Multiwords
• Derivation Tagging Guidelines
• Synonym Tagging Guidelines
• Determiners in the SPECIALIST Lexicon

II. LexBuild

• LexBuild Training Materials
• LexBuild Tutorial

III. References

• Lexicon Documents
• Lexical Record Specifications
• LSG Papers and Reports
• LSG Presentations

IV. Responsibilities

The responsibilities of LSG (computational) linguists include (but are not limited to):

• Building the SPECIALIST Lexicon of the UMLS (Unified Medical Language System)
• Morphological analysis of (potentially) derivationally related word/term pairs
• Semantic analysis of synonymy of (especially) biomedical word/term pairs
• Contribute general linguistic supports
• Contribute new ideas to enhance the SPECIALIST Lexicon and Lexical Tools, to support natural language processing projects