QuickUMLS
QuickUMLS (Soldaini and Goharian, 2016) is a tool for fast, unsupervised biomedical concept extraction from medical text. It takes advantage of Simstring (Okazaki and Tsujii, 2010) for approximate string matching. For more details on how QuickUMLS works, we remand to our paper.
Downloading instructions
The detailed instuctions on downloading, installing and using QuickUMLS can be found on the QuickUMLS Github repository.
For any questions email the author at luca@ir.cs.georgetown.edu.
References
- Okazaki, Naoaki, and Jun'ichi Tsujii. "Simple and efficient algorithm for approximate dictionary matching." COLING 2010.
- Luca Soldaini and Nazli Goharian. "QuickUMLS: a fast, unsupervised approach for medical concept extraction." MedIR Workshop at SIGIR 2016.