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Access to Biomedical Information: The Unified Medical Language System

Stephen J. Squires

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THENATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE (NLM) is engaged in a longterm project to develop a Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) that will retrieve and integrate information from a variety of information resources.Two UMLS components use fundamental aspects of controlled vocabulary structure and management and their relationship to information retrieval that have general interest for librarianship.The UMLS project is described along with its initial deployment in retrieval environments.

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THENATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE (NLM) is engaged in a longterm project to develop a Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) that will retrieve and integrate information from a variety of information resources.Two UMLS components use fundamental aspects of controlled vocabulary structure and management and their relationship to information retrieval that have general interest for librarianship.The UMLS project is described along with its initial deployment in retrieval environments.

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THENATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE (NLM) is engaged in a longterm project to develop a Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) that will retrieve and integrate information from a variety of information resources.Two UMLS components use fundamental aspects of controlled vocabulary structure and management and their relationship to information retrieval that have general interest for librarianship.The UMLS project is described along with its initial deployment in retrieval environments.

Key concepts: Unified Medical Language System, Controlled vocabulary, Vocabulary, Variety (cybernetics), Computer science, Software deployment, Information retrieval, Information system

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