Semantic relatedness study using second order co-occurrence vectors computed from biomedical corpora, UMLS and WordNet

Automated measures of semantic relatedness are important for effectively processing medical data for a variety of tasks such as information retrieval and natural language processing. In this paper, we present a context vector approach that can compute the semantic relatedness between any pair of concepts in the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). Our approach has been developed on a corpus of inpatient clinical reports. We use 430 pairs of clinical concepts manually rated for semantic relatedness as the reference standard. The experiments demonstrate that incorporating a combination of the UMLS and WordNet definitions can improve the semantic relatedness. The paper also shows that second order co-occurrence vector measure is a more effective approach than path-based methods for semantic relatedness.

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