Unified Medical Language System

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title
  • Unified Medical Language System
title.abbreviation
title.alternative
  • UMLS®
creator
  • developer U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)
subject
  • a very large, multi-purpose, and multi-lingual vocabulary database that contains information about biomedical and health-related concepts
subject.linguisticField
  • translating_and_interpreting
subject.monoMultilingual
  • multilingual
subject.resourceSubject
  • corpus
description
  • The purpose of NLM's Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS) is to facilitate the development of computer systems that behave as if they "understand" the meaning of the language of biomedicine and health.There are three UMLS Knowledge Sources: the Metathesaurus®, the Semantic Network, and the SPECIALIST Lexicon. They are distributed with flexible lexical tools and the MetamorphoSys install and customization program.http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/umls.html
description.price *This metadata is only as a guide
  • free of charge to U.S. and international users.
description.language
  • English
description.inputDevice
description.inputEnvironment
description.speakingStyle
description.speechMode
description.samplingRate
description.additionalData
publisher
  • U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)
contributor
contributor.attribute.author.motherTongue
contributor.attribute.author.dialect
contributor.attribute.author.level
contributor.attribute.author.age
contributor.attribute.author.gender
contributor.attribute.speaker.motherTongue
contributor.attribute.speaker.dialect
contributor.attribute.speaker.level
contributor.attribute.speaker.age
contributor.attribute.speaker.gender
contributor.attribute.speaker.number
date.created
date.issued
  • 2002-00-00
date.modified
  • 2008-11-17
type
type.discourseType
type.linguisticType
type.purpose
  • developing_technologies information retrieval, natural language processing, creation of patient and research data, and the development of enterprise-wide vocabulary services
type.style
type.form
type.sentence
type.annotation
  • annotated
type.annotationSample
type.sample
format.extent
  • MetamorphoSys requires a minimum of 20 GB of free hard disk
format.medium
  • Download
  • DVD
format.encoding
format.markup
format.functionality
identifier
identifier.doi
identifier.islrn
source
  • electronic versions of many different thesauri, classifications, code sets, and lists of controlled terms used in patient care, health services billing, public health statistics, indexing and cataloging biomedical literature, and/or basic, clinical, and health services research
language
  • English
language.area
relation
relation.utilization *This metadata is automatically extracted
coverage.temporal
coverage.spacial
rights