@article{McInnes2009,
abstract = {A number of computational measures for determining semantic similarity between pairs of biomedical concepts have been developed using various standards and programming platforms. In this paper, we introduce two new open-source frameworks based on the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). These frameworks consist of the UMLS-Similarity and UMLS-Interface packages. UMLS-Interface provides path information about UMLS concepts. UMLS-Similarity calculates the semantic similarity between UMLS concepts using several previously developed measures and can be extended to include new measures. We validate the functionality of these frameworks by reproducing the results from previous work. Our frameworks constitute a significant contribution to the field of biomedical Natural Language Processing by providing a common development and testing platform for semantic similarity measures based on the UMLS.},
author = {McInnes, Bridget T and Pedersen, Ted and Pakhomov, Serguei V S},
institution = {University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.},
journal = {AMIA Annual Symposium proceedings AMIA Symposium AMIA Symposium},
keywords = {SML-LIB-BIBLIO,lang:ENG},
mendeley-tags = {SML-LIB-BIBLIO,lang:ENG},
pages = {431--435},
publisher = {American Medical Informatics Association},
title = {{UMLS-Interface and UMLS-Similarity: Open Source Software for Measuring Paths and Semantic Similarity}},
url = {http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2815481\&tool=pmcentrez\&rendertype=abstract},
volume = {2009},
year = {2009}
}