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Using SNOMED CT with the UMLS - Medical Ontology Research

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Normalization Applications<br />

• Model for lexical resemblance<br />

• Help find lexical variants for a term<br />

◦ Terms that normalize <strong>the</strong> same usually share<br />

<strong>the</strong> same LUI<br />

• Help find candidates to synonymy among<br />

terms<br />

• Help map input terms to <strong>UMLS</strong> concepts

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