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Sub-Term Mapping Tools

Terms have no Norm-Mapping with no SMT synonyms lsit

The setup of thsi test are described as follows:

  • Input Terms: terms from UMLS-Core have no Norm-Mapping:
    • Original ID|TERM|CUI: 15,447
    • Total term with multi-CUI: 35
    • Total term with multi-ID: 1,492
    • It has been modified to 13,077 input TERM|CUI.
    • Removed terms has Norm-CUI-Mapping, 2,847 TERM|CUI are used

  • SMT model:
    • Lexicon, 2013
    • Meta-thesaurus, 2013AA
    • Synonyms list: none

Test IDSynonymslvg flowNo Sub.1 Sub.2 Sub.PrecisionRecallF1-measureMetaMap
Distance
Score
baselineNone 0.00% (0)0.00% (0)0.00% (0)N/A0.00%N/A 
sspelling variants-f:s0.00% (0)1.37% (39)0.04% (1)47.92%0.81%0.01590
iinflectional variants-f:i0.00% (0)0.11% (3)0.00% (0)25.00%0.04%0.00071
ysynonyms-f:y0.00% (0)0.81% (23)0.00% (0)27.59%0.28%0.00562
AAcronym/Abbreviation variants-f:A0.00% (0)13.98% (398)0.60% (17)55.91%10.96%0.18332
aexpansion variants-f:a0.00% (0)14.33% (408)0.77% (22)56.67%11.35%0.18912
dderivational variants-f:d0.00% (0)3.83% (109)0.18% (5)52.63%2.46%0.04703
Gefruitful variants-f:Ge0.00% (0)21.15% (602)1.79% (51)45.58%15.38%0.2300varies
SMTSMT synonyms 0.00% (0)21.78% (620)1.40% (40)48.25%15.95%0.2397N/A

  • Precision = relevant, retrieved / total retrieved
  • Recall = relevant, retrieved / total relevant
  • F1 = (2 x Precision x Recall) / (Precision + Recall)
    precision and recall are equally important, so use F1 (β = 1)