University of Minnesota Pharmacy Informatics Lab
Reference Standards
Medical Coders Set
A set of 101 medical concept pairs manually rater by medical coders for semantic relatedenss. (csv)
Medical Coders High Reliability Subset
A subset of 29 medical concept pairs manually rater by medical coders for semantic relatedenss with high inter-rater agreement. ( (csv)
Measures of semantic similarity and relatedness in the biomedical domain. Pedersen T., Pakhomov S.V.S., Patwardhan S., and Chute C.G. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 2007;40(3):288-299.
UMLS-Interface and UMLS-Similarity : Open source software for measuring paths and semantic similarity. McInnes B.T., Pedersen T., and Pakhomov S.V. In: Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association. San Fransisco, CA. 2009;431-435.
Associated Publications:
Medical Residents Similarity Set
A set of 566 UMLS concept pairs manually rated for semantic similarity using a continuous response scale ( csv )
Semantic Similarity and Relatedness between Clinical Terms: An Experimental Study. Pakhomov S., McInnes, B., Adams, T., Liu, Y., Pedersen, T. and Melton, G.B. To Appear in the Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association. Washington, D.C. November, 2010.
Associated Publications:
Medical Residents Relatedeness Set
A set of 587 UMLS concept pairs manually rated for semantic relatedenss using a continuous response scale ( csv )
Semantic Similarity and Relatedness between Clinical Terms: An Experimental Study. Pakhomov S., McInnes, B., Adams, T., Liu, Y., Pedersen, T. and Melton, G.B. To Appear in the Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association. Washington, D.C. November, 2010.