UMLS Focus Conceptual Connections

• Build knowledge sources that can be used by intelligent programs to overcome:

  • disparities in language used by different users and in different information sources;
  • difficulties in identifying which of many information sources is relevant

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The UMLS focused on developing knowledge sources -

addressing two major problem areas

Disparities in language

and

Identifying relevant sources

I am mainly going to talk about efforts in language today