UMLS Summary

• Concept-based

• Extensive content in biomedicine

• Scalable methodology

• Supporting both retrieval whether indexed or searching full-text

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In summary, tried to show you how the UMLS is concept based,

how it has an extensive content in biomedicine,

is built with a scalable methodology.

I would suggest that using the “web-scale” synonymy is more important than whether we are searching indexed material or the full text of material.