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ERIC Number: EJ485295
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1993
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ISSN: ISSN-0024-2594
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Access to Biomedical Information: The Unified Medical Language System.
Squires, Steven J.
Library Trends, v42 n1 p127-51 Sum 1993
Describes the development of a Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) by the National Library of Medicine that will retrieve and integrate information from a variety of information resources. Highlights include the metathesaurus; the UMLS semantic network; semantic locality; information sources map; evaluation of the metathesaurus; future possibilities; and projects using the UMLS. (Contains 62 references.) (LRW)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Biomedicine, Evaluation Methods, Futures (of Society), Information Retrieval, Information Sources, Medical Vocabulary, Program Descriptions, Semantics, Thesauri
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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