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Validating UMLS Semantic Type Assignments Using SNOMED CT Semantic Tags.

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BACKGROUND:The UMLS assigns semantic types to all its integrated concepts. The semantic types are widely used in various natural language processing tasks in the biomedical domain, such as named entity recognition, semantic disambiguation, and semantic annotation. Due to the size of the UMLS, erroneous semantic type assignments are hard to detect. It is imperative to devise automated techniques to identify errors and inconsistencies in semantic type assignments. OBJECTIVES:Designing a methodology to perform programmatic checks to detect semantic type assignment errors for UMLS concepts with one or more SNOMED CT terms and evaluating concepts in a selected set of SNOMED CT hierarchies to verify our hypothesis that UMLS semantic type assignment errors may exist in concepts residing in semantically inconsistent groups. METHODS:Our methodology is a four-stage process. 1) partitioning concepts in a SNOMED CT hierarchy into semantically uniform groups based on their assigned semantic tags; 2) partitioning concepts in each group from 1) into the disjoint sub-groups based on their semantic type assignments; 3) mapping all SNOMED CT semantic tags into one or more semantic types in the UMLS; 4) identifying semantically inconsistent groups that have inconsistent assignments between semantic tags and semantic types according to the mapping from 3) and providing concepts in such groups to the domain experts for reviewing. RESULTS:We applied our method on the UMLS 2013AA release. Concepts of the semantically inconsistent groups in the PHYSICAL FORCE and RECORD ARTIFACT hierarchies have error rates 33% and 62.5% respectively, which are greatly larger than error rates 0.6% and 1% in semantically consistent groups of the two hierarchies. CONCLUSION:Concepts in semantically in - consistent groups are more likely to contain semantic type assignment errors. Our methodology can make auditing more efficient by limiting auditing resources on concepts of semantically inconsistent groups.

journal_name

Methods Inf Med

journal_title

Methods of information in medicine

authors

Gu H,He Z,Wei D,Elhanan G,Chen Y

doi

10.3414/ME17-01-0120

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2018-02-01 00:00:00

pages

43-53

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eissn

0026-1270

issn

2511-705X

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Validating UMLS Semantic Type Assignments Using SNOMED CT Semantic Tags.