Hello Ted, Thank you very much for your timely response. I really appreciate.
It would be good if the similarity/ relatedness score would be calculated as "0" when one or both the concepts are unknown to UMLS. This can be a simple way of saying that there is no similarity- irrespective of the fact weather the term is unknown or known to UMLS. Anyway looking forward for your timely response with the new code that resolves this problem. Best Regards, Ali Hasnain --- In [email protected], "ted_pedersen" <duluthted@...> wrote: > > Hi Ali, > > Thanks for reporting this, and I can confirm your observation, the program > does indeed hang when one of the input terms is unknown to UMLS. We will take > a look at this and report back via the mailing list. > > Cordially, > Ted > > --- In [email protected], "ShopingPrincess99785" <ali.hasnain@> > wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I am using the UMLS Perl implementation from the command line to find the > > relatedness of two concepts. > > So it is noticed that it gives some score when I try to find the > > relatedness for two concepts that are defined in UMLS example is as follow: > > > > When I give the command "query-umls-similarity-webinterface.pl --measure > > vector drug molecule" it gives the score value: 0.4835 . > > Similarly it computes the values of all other concepts available in UMLS > > but the problem arrives when one of the two concept is asked that is not > > defined in UMLS, rather it should give value of 0 meaning there is no > > relatedness the command line become hanged and stops and waited for > > unlimited time giving no value or even no error. > > > > Example is When I give the command "query-umls-similarity-webinterface.pl > > --measure vector drug ABCD", so the concept ABCD is nothing defined in > > UMLS, it should give me some error or some numeric value e.g "0" showing no > > relatedness. > > > > Actually I am much relying on the numeric value that comes as an output for > > the relatedness and what I want is that it should give some value > > irrespective of what word has been asked. If that word is not available in > > the UMLS it should give me "0" or at least it should stop and give some > > message that this word is not available and computes the values for next > > pair when I give the words in a LOOP. > > > > > > As I am new to PERL, can you please guide me where should I make changes in > > the PERL code file of ""query-umls-similarity-webinterface.pl"" (that > > comes with the package) so it gives the value of "0" rather than the > > program hangs and go further. > > > > > > I consider this as a limitation or an error so please send me as an > > attachment the edited version of the code file of > > ""query-umls-similarity-webinterface.pl"" or any other that I can replaced > > with the existing files so I can continue computing relatedness > > irrespective of the fact weather any of the concept available in the UMLS > > or not. > > > > Looking forward for your timely response. > > > > Best Regards, > > Ali Hasnain > > >
