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Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS®)

Presentations and Publications

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Older Presentations and Publications from NLM Staff

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General Presentations

Additional Presentations and Publications
(Detailed list of presentations and publications given or written about the UMLS)

References appear in alphabetical order by author name. References date from 1998-2004.

Bodenreider, Olivier; Willis, Jan; Hole, William.
The Unified Medical Language System: What is it and how to use it?*
Presentation at: MEDINFO, September 8, 2004; San Francisco, CA.

Bodenreider, Olivier; Hole, William T.; Humphreys, Betsy, L.; Roth, Laura, A.; Srinivasan, Suresh
Customizing the UMLS Metathesaurus for your Applications.*
Proc AMIA Symp; Nov. 2002.

Bodenreider, Olivier; Hole, William T.; Humphreys, Betsy, L.; Roth, Laura, A.; Srinivasan, Suresh
Customizing the UMLS Metathesaurus for your Applications.*
Proc AMIA Symp; Nov. 2001.

Bodenreider, Olivier; Nelson, Stuart J.; Hole, William T.; Chang, H. Florence.
Beyond synonymy: exploiting the UMLS semantics in mapping vocabularies.
J Am Med Informatics Assoc (Symposium Suppl) 1998;:815-9.

Browne, Allen C.; Divita, Guy; Lu, Chris; McCray, Alexa T.
Lexical Tools for UMLS Developers*
Proc AMIA Symp; 2001.

Hole, William T.; Srinivasan, Suresh
Discovering Missed Synonymy in a Large Concept-Oriented Metathesaurus
Proc AMIA Symp; 2000.

Hole, William T.; Humphreys, Betsy, L.; Srinivasan, Suresh; Roth, Laura, A.
Customizing the UMLS Metathesaurus for your Applications.*
Proc AMIA Symp; 2000.

McCray, Alexa T.; Loane, Russell F.; Browne, Allen C.; Bangalore, Anantha K.
Terminology Issues in User Access to Web- based Medical Information
Proc AMIA Symp 1999; 107-111.

Nelson, Stuart J.; Brown, Steven H.; Hole, William T.; Erlbaum, Mark S.; Olson, Nels; Powell, Tammy; Carlsen, Brian; Carter, John; Tuttle, Mark S.
A Semantic Normal Form for Clinical Drugs in the UMLS: Early Experiences with the VANDF.
Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association; 2002 Nov 9-13; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia: Hanley & Belfus, Inc.; 2002. p. 557-561.

Nelson, Stuart J.
The Role of the Unified Medical Language System in Vocabulary Control.
Presentation at: CENDI Conference: Controlled Vocabulary and the Internet; 1999 Sep 29; Bethesda, MD.

Nelson, Stuart J.
The Unified Medical Language System. Applicable Experiences and Observations.
Presentation at: The Workshop on the Compilation, Maintenance, and Dissemination of Taxonomic Authority Files; 1998 Jun 22; Washington, DC.

Powell, Tammy; Srinivasan, Suresh; Nelson, Stuart J.; Hole, William T.; Roth, Laura; Olenichev, Vladimir.
Tracking Meaning Over Time in the UMLS Metathesaurus.
Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association; 2002 Nov 9-13; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia: Hanley & Belfus, Inc.; 2002. p. 622-626.

Wilbur, W. John; Hazard, George F.; Divita, Guy; Mork, James G.; Aronson, Alan R.; Browne, Allen C.
Analysis of Biomedical Text for Chemical Names: A Comparison of Three Methods
Proc AMIA Symp 1999; 176-180.

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Last Reviewed: July 25, 2016