Hi Helen,
I just wanted to reconfirm what Ted said. The term "Abortion" does not
exist in MSH which is why a -1 is returned. Although, it does exist in
SNOMEDCT and a number of other sources.
The term pair you are using looks like it comes from either the MiniMayoSRS
or MayoSRS reference standards. I wanted to point out the location of where
we have the term to CUI mappings for MSH and SNOMEDCT -- they might be
useful. Here is the location:
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~bthomson/corpus/corpus.html
These files can be used directly as input into the
umls-similarity.plprogram using the --infile option, for example:
perl umls-similarity.pl --username=root --password='xx" --database=umls
--measure=wup abortion miscarriage --infile=FILENAME
I hope this helps!
Cheers,
Bridget
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 5:36 PM, helen_geb <[email protected]> wrote:
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>
> Hi Ted,
> I was trying to find the similarity between words using umls-similarity.pl.
> For most it works fine.
>
> But for some or example abortion<>miscarriage it returns -1. I got those
> words from umls similarity version 0.13 table 1("umls similarity results")
> the output in that version was 0.47.
>
> I don't know how the current version is returning -1? Could it be the
> problem with my data? Or it is returing -1 for every one?
>
> Here is what I am running
>
> >perl umls-similarity.pl --username=root --password='xx" --database=
> umls --measure=wup abortion miscarriage
>
> Thanks,
> Helen
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