Bangalore Anantha, Thorn Karen E, Tilley Carolyn, Peters Lee
US National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA.
AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2003;2003:51-5.
The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), a project of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), regularly distributes a set of knowledge sources to the research community. These data are made available over the Internet through the UMLS Knowledge Source Server (UMLSKS). The new version of the UMLSKS is a complete redesign of the original system using Java and the Extensible Markup Language (XML) technologies to implement a fast, reliable, flexible, and extensible UMLS data retrieval system that includes an Application Programmer's Interface (API) and an Object Model of each of the Knowledge Sources: the UMLS Metathesaurus, the Semantic Network, and the SPECIALIST Lexicon. In this paper we present the design of the new system, outline each of the system design goals, the UMLS Object Model, and statistics showing the usage of the new UMLSKS and associated data. We conclude with implications for future work.
统一医学语言系统（UMLS）是美国国立医学图书馆（NLM）的一个项目，它定期向研究团体分发一组知识源。这些数据通过UMLS知识源服务器（UMLSKS）在互联网上提供。UMLSKS的新版本是对原系统的全面重新设计，使用Java和可扩展标记语言（XML）技术来实现一个快速、可靠、灵活且可扩展的UMLS数据检索系统，该系统包括一个应用程序编程接口（API）以及每个知识源的对象模型：UMLS元词表、语义网络和专业词典。在本文中，我们介绍新系统的设计，概述每个系统设计目标、UMLS对象模型，以及展示新UMLSKS和相关数据使用情况的统计数据。我们最后阐述了对未来工作的启示。
