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 …

The goal of pharmacovigilance is to detect, monitor, characterize and prevent adverse drug
events (ADEs) with pharmaceutical products. This article is a comprehensive structured …

Secondary use of electronic health records (EHRs) promises to advance clinical research
and better inform clinical decision making. Challenges in summarizing and representing …

Ontologies are widely used in biological and biomedical research. Their success lies in their
combination of four main features present in almost all ontologies: provision of standard …

To the Editor: Biomedical data are being produced at an unprecedented rate owing to the
falling cost of experiments and wider access to genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and …

In response to the unbridled growth of information in literature and biomedical databases,
researchers require efficient means of handling and extracting information. As well as …

Abstract The National Center for Biomedical Ontology is now in its seventh year. The goals
of this National Center for Biomedical Computing are to: create and maintain a repository of …

With increasing adoption of electronic health records (EHRs), there is an opportunity to use
the free‐text portion of EHRs for pharmacovigilance. We present novel methods that …

Background Natural language processing (NLP) applications are increasingly important in
biomedical data analysis, knowledge engineering, and decision support. Concept …

Background and objective In order for computers to extract useful information from
unstructured text, a concept normalization system is needed to link relevant concepts in a …