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Rewriting and suppressing UMLS terms for improved biomedical term identification

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Biomedical Semantics, March 2010
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Title
Rewriting and suppressing UMLS terms for improved biomedical term identification
Published in
Journal of Biomedical Semantics, March 2010
DOI 10.1186/2041-1480-1-5
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Authors

Kristina M Hettne, Erik M van Mulligen, Martijn J Schuemie, Bob JA Schijvenaars, Jan A Kors

Abstract

Identification of terms is essential for biomedical text mining.. We concentrate here on the use of vocabularies for term identification, specifically the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). To make the UMLS more suitable for biomedical text mining we implemented and evaluated nine term rewrite and eight term suppression rules. The rules rely on UMLS properties that have been identified in previous work by others, together with an additional set of new properties discovered by our group during our work with the UMLS. Our work complements the earlier work in that we measure the impact on the number of terms identified by the different rules on a MEDLINE corpus. The number of uniquely identified terms and their frequency in MEDLINE were computed before and after applying the rules. The 50 most frequently found terms together with a sample of 100 randomly selected terms were evaluated for every rule.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 4 7%
Portugal 3 5%
United Kingdom 2 4%
Spain 2 4%
Belgium 1 2%
Australia 1 2%
China 1 2%
United States 1 2%
Unknown 41 73%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 18 32%
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 29%
Other 5 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 7%
Student > Master 4 7%
Other 6 11%
Unknown 3 5%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 28 50%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 15 27%
Linguistics 2 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 2%
Unspecified 1 2%
Other 5 9%
Unknown 4 7%
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