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Logic-based assessment of the compatibility of UMLS ontology sources

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Background: The UMLS Metathesaurus (UMLS-Meta) is currently the most comprehensive effort for integrating independently-developed medical thesauri and ontologies. UMLS-Meta is being used in many applications, including PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov. The integration of new sources combines automatic techniques, expert assessment, and auditing protocols. The automatic techniques currently in use, however, are mostly based on lexical algorithms and often d...

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Published
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Reviewed (other)

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doi:10.1186/2041-1480-2-S1-S2
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BioMed Central Publisher's website
Host title:
Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS), 2009
Series:
BMC Journal of Biomedical Semantics
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Journal of Biomedical Semantics Journal website
Publication date:
2011-03-07
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1613-0073
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uuid:ce10077e-e1fd-461c-891b-25862a4d5c4e
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cs:3654
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cs:3654
Deposit date:
2015-03-31

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