UMLS: : Similarity: Measuring the Relatedness and Similarity of Biomedical Concepts
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UMLS::Similarity is freely available open source software that allows a user to measure the semantic similarity or relatedness of biomedical terms found in the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). It is written in Perl and can be used via a command line interface, an API, or a Web interface.
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تاریخ انتشار 2013