/ 
UMLS-Similarity-0.05
River stage one • 1 direct dependent • 1 total dependent
/ queryUMLS.pl

NAME

queryUMLS.pl - this program returns a semantic similarity score between two concepts

SYNOPSIS

This is a utility that takes as input either two terms (DEFAULT) or two CUIs and returns the similarity between the two.

USAGE

Usage: queryUMLS.pl [OPTIONS] TERM1 TERM2

INPUT

Optional Arguments:

--cui

The input for TERM1 and TERM2 are actually CUIs rather than terms

--username STRING

Username is required to access the umls database on MySql

--password STRING

Password is required to access the umls database on MySql

--lch

Use the module implementing the Leacock and Chodorow (1998) measure

--path

Use the module implementing the simple edge counting measure of semantic relatedness (DEFAULT).

--hostname STRING

Hostname where mysql is located. DEFAULT: localhost

--database STRING

Database contain UMLS DEFAULT: umls

--help

Displays the quick summary of program options.

--version

Displays the version information.

OUTPUT

disambiguate.pl creates two directories. One containing the arff files and the other containing the weka files. In the weka directory, the overall averages are stored in the OverallAverage file.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

  • Perl (version 5.8.5 or better) - http://www.perl.org

  • UMLS::Interface - http://search.cpan.org/dist/UMLS-Query

  • UMLS::Similarity - http://search.cpan.org/dist/UMLS-Query

AUTHOR

Bridget T. McInnes, University of Minnesota

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2007-2008,

Bridget T. McInnes, University of Minnesota
bthomson at cs.umn.edu
   
Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota Duluth
tpederse at d.umn.edu

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to:

The Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.