An overview of MetaMap: historical perspective and recent advances.
MetaMap is a widely available program providing access to the concepts in the unified medical language system (UMLS) Metathesaurus from biomedical text. This study reports on MetaMap's evolution over more than a decade, concentrating on those features arising out of the research needs of the biomedical informatics community both within and outside of the National Library of Medicine. Such features include the detection of author-defined acronyms/abbreviations, the ability to browse [...]
Author(s): Aronson, Alan R, Lang, François-Michel
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2009.002733