Hi Ted and Bridget, Thank you guys, your response was helpful.
Regards, Helen. --- In [email protected], Bridget McInnes <btmcinnes@...> wrote: > > 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 <helen_geb@...> wrote: > > > ** > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > >
