History of UMLS::Similarity
The information on this page is provided to explain the historical
development of UMLS::Similarity. If you need information about the
current state of the project, please visit the
UMLS::Similarity
home page.
UMLS::Query
is a sourceforge project that served as a development umbrella for
three projects concerned with developing measures of
semantic similarity and relatedness for the medical domain. Note that
development is no longer carried out under this project, and it is preserved
purely for historical and back-up purposes.
All of the following projects find their origins (both theoretically
and in terms of code) in
WordNet::Similarity.
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UMLS::Interface and UMLS::Similarity (2008-present)
These packages are under active development. They rely on ontologies
and terminologies found in the
Unified Medical
Language System (UMLS) for measuring semantic similarity and relatedness
of medical concepts.
We are releasing this code via CPAN:
Note that there is a
UMLS-Similarity
sourceforge project, where you can always browse the most current version of the
code.
We also have an active
mailing list available for users of this code.
These packages were initially based on Snomed-Interface and
Semantic-Similarity.
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Snomed::Interface and Semantic::Similarity (2003-2007)
This project created a generic interface to ontologies (Semantic-Similarity)
and then a specific interface for SnoMed-CT (Snomed-Interface, circa 2003,
PRIOR to incorporation by UMLS).
The results of this project are described in the following article:
There were no formal releases of this code, although it is available via CVS:
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UMLS::Query (2003)
Do not confuse this with the Perl module
UMLS-Query created by Nigam Shah.
"Our" UMLS-Query was a very preliminary interface to UMLS that we implemented
purely in Perl.
There were no formal releases of this code, although it is available via CVS:
By: Ted Pedersen -
tpederse AT d umn edu