Semantic Integration in Biomedicine
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چکیده
In 1986, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) initiated a terminology integration project – the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) – as “an effort to overcome two significant barriers to effective retrieval of machine-readable information”: the variety of names used to express the same concept and the absence of a standard format for distributing terminologies. By integrating more than 60 families of biomedical vocabularies, the UMLS Metathesaurus currently provides not only an extensive list of names (2.5 million) for its 900,551 concepts, but also over 12 million relations among these concepts. Its scope is broader and its granularity finer than that of any of its source vocabularies.
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