An overview of MetaMap: historical perspective and recent advances

AR Aronson, FM Lang - Journal of the American Medical …, 2010‏ - academic.oup.com
MetaMap is a widely available program providing access to the concepts in the unified
medical language system (UMLS) Metathesaurus from biomedical text. This study reports on …

[HTML][HTML] Empirical distributional semantics: methods and biomedical applications

T Cohen, D Widdows - Journal of biomedical informatics, 2009‏ - Elsevier
Over the past 15 years, a range of methods have been developed that are able to learn
human-like estimates of the semantic relatedness between terms from the way in which …

Mayo clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES): architecture, component evaluation and applications

GK Savova, JJ Masanz, PV Ogren… - Journal of the …, 2010‏ - academic.oup.com
We aim to build and evaluate an open-source natural language processing system for
information extraction from electronic medical record clinical free-text. We describe and …

Effective map** of biomedical text to the UMLS Metathesaurus: the MetaMap program

AR Aronson - Proceedings of the AMIA Symposium, 2001‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The UMLS Metathesaurus, the largest thesaurus in the biomedical domain, provides a
representation of biomedical knowledge consisting of concepts classified by semantic type …

[HTML][HTML] The interaction of domain knowledge and linguistic structure in natural language processing: interpreting hypernymic propositions in biomedical text

TC Rindflesch, M Fiszman - Journal of biomedical informatics, 2003‏ - Elsevier
Interpretation of semantic propositions in free-text documents such as MEDLINE citations
would provide valuable support for biomedical applications, and several approaches to …

Automated encoding of clinical documents based on natural language processing

C Friedman, L Shagina, Y Lussier… - Journal of the American …, 2004‏ - academic.oup.com
Objective: The aim of this study was to develop a method based on natural language
processing (NLP) that automatically maps an entire clinical document to codes with …

[PDF][PDF] Topic indexing with Wikipedia

O Medelyan, IH Witten, D Milne - Proceedings of the AAAI WikiAI …, 2008‏ - cdn.aaai.org
Wikipedia can be utilized as a controlled vocabulary for identifying the main topics in a
document, with article titles serving as index terms and redirect titles as their synonyms …

[HTML][HTML] Natural language processing to extract medical problems from electronic clinical documents: performance evaluation

S Meystre, PJ Haug - Journal of biomedical informatics, 2006‏ - Elsevier
In this study, we evaluate the performance of a Natural Language Processing (NLP)
application designed to extract medical problems from narrative text clinical documents. The …

The NLM indexing initiative's medical text indexer

AR Aronson, JG Mork, CW Gay, SM Humphrey… - MEDINFO …, 2004‏ - ebooks.iospress.nl
Abstract The Medical Text Indexer (MTI) is a program for producing McSH® indexing
recommendations. It is the major product of NLM's Indexing Initiative and has been used in …

Graph-based retriever captures the long tail of biomedical knowledge

J Delile, S Mukherjee, A Van Pamel… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
Large language models (LLMs) are transforming the way information is retrieved with vast
amounts of knowledge being summarized and presented via natural language …