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Using SNOMED CT with the UMLS - Medical Ontology Research

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Lexical tools<br />

• To manage lexical variation in biomedical<br />

terminologies<br />

• Major tools<br />

◦ Normalization<br />

◦ Indexes<br />

◦ Lexical Variant Generation program (lvg)<br />

• Based on <strong>the</strong> SPECIALIST Lexicon<br />

• Used by noun phrase extractors, search<br />

engines

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