Lexical methods for managing variation in biomedical terminologies.

@article{citeulike:1538143, abstract = {Access to biomedical terminologies is hampered by the high degree of variability inherent in natural language terms and in the terminologies themselves. The lexicon, lexical programs, databases, and indexes included with the 1994 release of the UMLS Knowledge Sources are designed to help users manage this variability. We describe these resources and illustrate their flexibility and usefulness in providing enhanced access to data in the UMLS Metathesaurus.}, address = {National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland.}, author = {McCray, A. T. and Srinivasan, S. and Browne, A. C. }, citeulike-article-id = {1538143}, issn = {0195-4210}, journal = {Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care}, keywords = {specialist, syntactic-analyse}, pages = {235--239}, posted-at = {2007-08-06 14:40:27}, priority = {2}, title = {Lexical methods for managing variation in biomedical terminologies.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7949926}, year = {1994} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1538143 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1538143 TI - Lexical methods for managing variation in biomedical terminologies. JF - Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care SP - 235 EP - 239 AD - National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland. SN - 0195-4210 N2 - Access to biomedical terminologies is hampered by the high degree of variability inherent in natural language terms and in the terminologies themselves. The lexicon, lexical programs, databases, and indexes included with the 1994 release of the UMLS Knowledge Sources are designed to help users manage this variability. We describe these resources and illustrate their flexibility and usefulness in providing enhanced access to data in the UMLS Metathesaurus. KW - specialist KW - syntactic-analyse AU - McCray, AT AU - Srinivasan, S AU - Browne, AC PY - 1994/// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7949926 ER -