Measuring Semantic Similarity and Relatedness in the Biomedical Domain : Methods and Applications - presented Feb 21, 2012 as a webinar to the Mayo Clinic BMI group.
The document summarizes a tutorial on measuring semantic similarity and relatedness between medical concepts. It introduces different types of measures, including path-based measures, measures using information content that incorporate concept specificity, and measures of relatedness that use definition overlaps or corpus co-occurrence information. The tutorial aims to explain the distinction between similarity and relatedness, describe available measures, and how to evaluate and apply them in clinical natural language processing tasks.
Information Retrieval using Semantic SimilaritySaswat Padhi
This document summarizes a seminar on artificial intelligence that covered three main topics: information retrieval using semantics and ontology, semantic similarity, and information retrieval. It discusses how semantics and ontologies can help address what information retrieval is currently lacking by providing meaning. It then covers different approaches to measuring semantic similarity based on path lengths and information content in ontologies. Finally, it discusses how information retrieval can be improved by reweighting query terms and expanding queries based on semantic similarity to related terms.
Distributional semantics is a research area that uses statistical analysis of linguistic contexts to develop theories and methods for determining the semantic similarities between words and linguistic items based on their distributional properties in large text corpora. It is based on the distributional hypothesis that words with similar distributions have similar meanings. Distributional semantic models represent words as vectors in a high-dimensional semantic space based on their co-occurrence with other words, allowing semantic similarity to be measured using vector similarity methods. Common distributional semantic models include term frequency-inverse document frequency (tf-idf), latent semantic analysis (LSA), latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), and word embeddings.
Introduction to Distributional SemanticsAndre Freitas
This document provides an introduction to distributional semantics. It discusses how distributional semantic models (DSMs) represent word meanings as vectors based on their linguistic contexts in large corpora. This distributional hypothesis states that words that appear in similar contexts tend to have similar meanings. The document outlines how DSMs are built, important parameters like context type and weighting, and examples like latent semantic analysis. It also discusses how DSMs can support applications like semantic search. Finally, it introduces how compositional semantics explores representing the meanings of phrases and sentences compositionally based on the meanings of their parts.
Probabilistic Quantifier Logic for General Intelligence: An Indefinite Proba...Matthew Ikle
The document discusses an approach to probabilistic quantifier logic called indefinite probabilities. It uses third-order probabilities to assign truth values to expressions with unbound variables, extending standard quantifier logic. For universal quantifiers, it calculates the probability that the true envelope of distributions is contained within an interval representing 'essentially 1'. For existential quantifiers, it calculates the probability that the true envelope is not contained within an interval representing 'essentially 0'. It also explains how this approach can handle fuzzy quantifiers using proxy confidence levels.
The document discusses methods for measuring similarity between concepts and contexts. It describes approaches that measure conceptual similarity using structured knowledge bases like WordNet and contextual similarity using co-occurrence information from large corpora. Word sense disambiguation can be performed by finding the sense of a word most related to its neighbors based on these similarity measures. The document also discusses limitations and opportunities for improving current approaches.
This document presents a method for measuring the semantic similarity of short texts using both corpus-based and knowledge-based measures of word semantic similarity. It combines word-to-word similarity scores with word specificity measures to determine the overall semantic similarity between two text segments. The method is evaluated on a paraphrase recognition task and is shown to outperform methods based only on simple lexical matching, resulting in up to a 13% reduction in error rate.
These are the slides for a talk given at the University of Alabama, Birmingham on April 19, 2013. The title of the talk is "Measuring Similarity and Relatedness in the Biomedical Domain : Methods and Applications"
The document summarizes a tutorial on measuring semantic similarity and relatedness between medical concepts. It introduces different types of measures, including path-based measures, measures using information content that incorporate concept specificity, and measures of relatedness that use definition overlaps or corpus co-occurrence information. The tutorial aims to explain the distinction between similarity and relatedness, describe available measures, and how to evaluate and apply them in clinical natural language processing tasks.
Information Retrieval using Semantic SimilaritySaswat Padhi
This document summarizes a seminar on artificial intelligence that covered three main topics: information retrieval using semantics and ontology, semantic similarity, and information retrieval. It discusses how semantics and ontologies can help address what information retrieval is currently lacking by providing meaning. It then covers different approaches to measuring semantic similarity based on path lengths and information content in ontologies. Finally, it discusses how information retrieval can be improved by reweighting query terms and expanding queries based on semantic similarity to related terms.
Distributional semantics is a research area that uses statistical analysis of linguistic contexts to develop theories and methods for determining the semantic similarities between words and linguistic items based on their distributional properties in large text corpora. It is based on the distributional hypothesis that words with similar distributions have similar meanings. Distributional semantic models represent words as vectors in a high-dimensional semantic space based on their co-occurrence with other words, allowing semantic similarity to be measured using vector similarity methods. Common distributional semantic models include term frequency-inverse document frequency (tf-idf), latent semantic analysis (LSA), latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), and word embeddings.
Introduction to Distributional SemanticsAndre Freitas
This document provides an introduction to distributional semantics. It discusses how distributional semantic models (DSMs) represent word meanings as vectors based on their linguistic contexts in large corpora. This distributional hypothesis states that words that appear in similar contexts tend to have similar meanings. The document outlines how DSMs are built, important parameters like context type and weighting, and examples like latent semantic analysis. It also discusses how DSMs can support applications like semantic search. Finally, it introduces how compositional semantics explores representing the meanings of phrases and sentences compositionally based on the meanings of their parts.
Probabilistic Quantifier Logic for General Intelligence: An Indefinite Proba...Matthew Ikle
The document discusses an approach to probabilistic quantifier logic called indefinite probabilities. It uses third-order probabilities to assign truth values to expressions with unbound variables, extending standard quantifier logic. For universal quantifiers, it calculates the probability that the true envelope of distributions is contained within an interval representing 'essentially 1'. For existential quantifiers, it calculates the probability that the true envelope is not contained within an interval representing 'essentially 0'. It also explains how this approach can handle fuzzy quantifiers using proxy confidence levels.
The document discusses methods for measuring similarity between concepts and contexts. It describes approaches that measure conceptual similarity using structured knowledge bases like WordNet and contextual similarity using co-occurrence information from large corpora. Word sense disambiguation can be performed by finding the sense of a word most related to its neighbors based on these similarity measures. The document also discusses limitations and opportunities for improving current approaches.
This document presents a method for measuring the semantic similarity of short texts using both corpus-based and knowledge-based measures of word semantic similarity. It combines word-to-word similarity scores with word specificity measures to determine the overall semantic similarity between two text segments. The method is evaluated on a paraphrase recognition task and is shown to outperform methods based only on simple lexical matching, resulting in up to a 13% reduction in error rate.
These are the slides for a talk given at the University of Alabama, Birmingham on April 19, 2013. The title of the talk is "Measuring Similarity and Relatedness in the Biomedical Domain : Methods and Applications"
A Distributional Semantics Approach for Selective Reasoning on Commonsense Gr...Andre Freitas
Tasks such as question answering and semantic search are dependent
on the ability of querying & reasoning over large-scale commonsense knowledge
bases (KBs). However, dealing with commonsense data demands coping with
problems such as the increase in schema complexity, semantic inconsistency, incompleteness
and scalability. This paper proposes a selective graph navigation
mechanism based on a distributional relational semantic model which can be applied
to querying & reasoning over heterogeneous knowledge bases (KBs). The
approach can be used for approximative reasoning, querying and associational
knowledge discovery. In this paper we focus on commonsense reasoning as the
main motivational scenario for the approach. The approach focuses on addressing
the following problems: (i) providing a semantic selection mechanism for facts
which are relevant and meaningful in a specific reasoning & querying context
and (ii) allowing coping with information incompleteness in large KBs. The approach
is evaluated using ConceptNet as a commonsense KB, and achieved high
selectivity, high scalability and high accuracy in the selection of meaningful nav-
igational paths. Distributional semantics is also used as a principled mechanism
to cope with information incompleteness.
This document describes the topicmodels package in R, which provides tools for fitting topic models to text data. The package interfaces with existing C/C++ code for fitting LDA and CTM topic models using either variational EM or Gibbs sampling algorithms. It builds on the tm package to preprocess text into a document-term matrix. The topicmodels package allows fitting different topic model types with different estimation methods and provides functions for model selection and analyzing fitted models.
This document proposes online inference algorithms for topic models as an alternative to traditional batch algorithms. It introduces two related online algorithms: incremental Gibbs samplers and particle filters. These algorithms update estimates of topics incrementally as each new document is observed, making them suitable for applications where the document collection grows over time. The algorithms are evaluated in comparison to existing batch algorithms to analyze their runtime and performance.
The document describes optimizations made to the Near-Synonym System (NeSS) to improve its performance and scalability. The key optimizations included building an index on the suffix array to reduce substring search time from O(L + logN) to O(L), parallelizing the system more efficiently, and keeping a single global suffix array to improve accuracy of results. These optimizations led to an approximately 20x-40x speedup of NeSS.
The document describes the Correlated Topic Model (CTM), which addresses a limitation of LDA and other topic models by directly modeling correlations between topics. CTM uses a logistic normal distribution over topic proportions instead of a Dirichlet, allowing for covariance structure between topics. This provides a more realistic model of latent topic structure where presence of one topic may be correlated with another. Variational inference is used to approximate posterior inference in CTM. The model is shown to provide a better fit than LDA on a corpus of journal articles.
The document describes a system for semantic textual similarity (STS) that uses various techniques to estimate the semantic similarity between texts. The system combines lexical, syntactic, and semantic information sources using state-of-the-art algorithms. In SemEval 2016 tasks, the system achieved a mean Pearson correlation of 75.7% on the monolingual English task and 86.3% on the cross-lingual Spanish-English task, ranking first in the cross-lingual task. The system utilizes techniques such as word embeddings, paragraph vectors, tree-structured LSTMs, and word alignment to capture semantic similarity.
An introduction to compositional models in distributional semanticsAndre Freitas
The document provides an overview of compositional distributional semantic models, which aim to develop principled and effective semantic models for real-world language use. It discusses using large corpora to extract distributional representations of word meanings and developing compositional models that combine these representations according to syntactic structure. Both additive and multiplicative mixture models as well as function-based models are described. Challenges including lack of training data and computational complexity are also outlined.
Discovering Novel Information with sentence Level clustering From Multi-docu...irjes
The document presents a novel fuzzy clustering algorithm called FRECCA that clusters sentences from multi-documents to discover new information. FRECCA uses fuzzy relational eigenvector centrality to calculate page rank scores for sentences within clusters, treating the scores as likelihoods. It uses expectation maximization to optimize cluster membership values and mixing coefficients without a parameterized likelihood function. An evaluation shows FRECCA achieves superior performance to other clustering algorithms on a quotations dataset, identifying overlapping clusters of semantically related sentences.
This document is a thesis submitted by Sihan Chen for a Master's degree in Statistics at the University of Chicago. It compares two topic models - Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and Von Mises-Fisher (vMF) clustering. LDA uses variational inference to approximate the posterior distribution of topics, while vMF clustering incorporates word embeddings. The thesis experiments with topic assignments, word co-occurrence, and pointwise mutual information to compare the two models.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Development (IJERD)IJERD Editor
International Journal of Engineering Research and Development is an international premier peer reviewed open access engineering and technology journal promoting the discovery, innovation, advancement and dissemination of basic and transitional knowledge in engineering, technology and related disciplines.
Some alternative ways to find m ambiguous binary words corresponding to a par...ijcsa
Parikh matrix of a word gives numerical information of the word in terms of its subwords. In this Paper an
algorithm for finding Parikh matrix of a binary word is introduced. With the help of this algorithm Parikh
matrix of a binary word, however large it may be can be found out. M-ambiguous words are the problem of
Parikh matrix. In this paper an algorithm is shown to find the M- ambiguous words of a binary ordered
word instantly. We have introduced a system to represent binary words in a two dimensional field. We see
that there are some relations among the representations of M-ambiguous words in the two dimensional
field. We have also introduced a set of equations which will help us to calculate the M- ambiguous words.
This document describes two open source software tools, UMLS-Interface and UMLS-Similarity, for measuring the semantic similarity between biomedical concepts using the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). UMLS-Interface extracts concept path information from the UMLS. UMLS-Similarity uses this information to calculate semantic similarity scores between concepts using various path-based measures. The tools were validated by reproducing results from previous studies on concept similarity.
The document summarizes a tutorial on word sense disambiguation (WSD) given at AAAI-2005. It introduces the problem of WSD, outlines different approaches including knowledge-intensive methods, supervised learning, minimally supervised and unsupervised learning. The tutorial aims to introduce WSD and persuade the audience to work on and apply WSD in their text applications.
This document provides an overview of a tutorial on word sense disambiguation (WSD). The tutorial aims to introduce the problem of WSD and various approaches, including knowledge-intensive methods, supervised learning approaches, and unsupervised learning. It covers the history of WSD, theoretical connections to other fields, practical applications, and an outline of the different parts of the tutorial.
The document discusses techniques for discriminating between different meanings (senses) of words based on their usage context. It presents a methodology that clusters similar contexts of a target word based on lexical features. Contexts are represented as vectors, and similarities are measured to group contexts and label clusters. Experimental results show second-order representations that capture indirect relationships generally perform better, while first-order may be better for larger, more homogeneous data. Software tools described implement various natural language processing and word sense discrimination techniques.
Some thoughts on what it's like to do a Master's thesis with me, including general ideas about research, my research interests, and a few suggestions as to what will lead to success
The document describes experiments conducted to evaluate measures of association for identifying the compositionality of word pairs. It discusses two hypotheses: 1) word pairs with higher association scores are less compositional, and 2) more frequent word pairs are more compositional. Three systems are described that use different measures of association (t-score, PMI, PMI) to classify word pair compositionality in a shared task. While the t-score performed best at identifying compositionality, PMI and frequency-based measures showed less success.
The document discusses the history and evolution of dictionaries from the first English dictionary in 1604 to modern computational approaches using natural language processing. It describes early dictionaries like Robert Cawdrey's Table Alphabeticall and Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language. Later influential dictionaries included Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language and the Oxford English Dictionary. The document proposes that natural language processing techniques like analyzing word frequencies, collocations, and measures of association could help identify emerging words and senses in new text, similar to the work of lexicographers in compiling dictionaries.
The document discusses measuring similarity between concepts and contexts. It describes using structured knowledge bases like WordNet to measure conceptual similarity and knowledge-lean methods based on word co-occurrence from corpora to measure contextual similarity. These techniques can be applied to problems like word sense disambiguation, where the intended sense of an ambiguous word depends on its surrounding context.
EVALution 1.0 - An Evolving Semantic Dataset for Trainining and Evaluation of...Enrico Santus Aversano
These slides introduce EVALution 1.0, a dataset designed for the training and the evaluation of Distributional Semantic Models (DSMs). This version consists of almost 7.5K tuples, instantiating several semantic relations between word pairs (including hypernymy, synonymy, antonymy, meronymy). The dataset is enriched with a large amount of additional information (i.e. relation domain, word frequency,
word POS, word semantic field, etc.) that can be used for either filtering the pairs or performing an in-depth analysis of the results. The tuples were extracted from a combination of ConceptNet 5.0 and WordNet 4.0, and subsequently filtered through automatic methods and crowdsourcing in order to ensure their quality. The dataset is freely downloadable. An extension in RDF format, including also scripts for data
processing, is under development.
This document describes UMLS::Similarity, an open source software that measures the semantic similarity or relatedness of biomedical terms from the Unified Medical Language Systems (UMLS). It provides several measures to quantify similarity/relatedness based on the hierarchical structure and definitions of terms in the UMLS. The software can be used via command line, API, or web interface and has been used in applications like word sense disambiguation.
The document describes a study that cross-evaluates several entity linking and word sense disambiguation systems on clinical text data. The study finds that generic systems like TagMe and BabelFly are competitive with the domain-specific MetaMap system, and resolving entity links through DBpedia improves performance. While MetaMap outperforms the other systems on some metrics, TagMe achieves the highest F1 score overall, though the difference is small.
A Distributional Semantics Approach for Selective Reasoning on Commonsense Gr...Andre Freitas
Tasks such as question answering and semantic search are dependent
on the ability of querying & reasoning over large-scale commonsense knowledge
bases (KBs). However, dealing with commonsense data demands coping with
problems such as the increase in schema complexity, semantic inconsistency, incompleteness
and scalability. This paper proposes a selective graph navigation
mechanism based on a distributional relational semantic model which can be applied
to querying & reasoning over heterogeneous knowledge bases (KBs). The
approach can be used for approximative reasoning, querying and associational
knowledge discovery. In this paper we focus on commonsense reasoning as the
main motivational scenario for the approach. The approach focuses on addressing
the following problems: (i) providing a semantic selection mechanism for facts
which are relevant and meaningful in a specific reasoning & querying context
and (ii) allowing coping with information incompleteness in large KBs. The approach
is evaluated using ConceptNet as a commonsense KB, and achieved high
selectivity, high scalability and high accuracy in the selection of meaningful nav-
igational paths. Distributional semantics is also used as a principled mechanism
to cope with information incompleteness.
This document describes the topicmodels package in R, which provides tools for fitting topic models to text data. The package interfaces with existing C/C++ code for fitting LDA and CTM topic models using either variational EM or Gibbs sampling algorithms. It builds on the tm package to preprocess text into a document-term matrix. The topicmodels package allows fitting different topic model types with different estimation methods and provides functions for model selection and analyzing fitted models.
This document proposes online inference algorithms for topic models as an alternative to traditional batch algorithms. It introduces two related online algorithms: incremental Gibbs samplers and particle filters. These algorithms update estimates of topics incrementally as each new document is observed, making them suitable for applications where the document collection grows over time. The algorithms are evaluated in comparison to existing batch algorithms to analyze their runtime and performance.
The document describes optimizations made to the Near-Synonym System (NeSS) to improve its performance and scalability. The key optimizations included building an index on the suffix array to reduce substring search time from O(L + logN) to O(L), parallelizing the system more efficiently, and keeping a single global suffix array to improve accuracy of results. These optimizations led to an approximately 20x-40x speedup of NeSS.
The document describes the Correlated Topic Model (CTM), which addresses a limitation of LDA and other topic models by directly modeling correlations between topics. CTM uses a logistic normal distribution over topic proportions instead of a Dirichlet, allowing for covariance structure between topics. This provides a more realistic model of latent topic structure where presence of one topic may be correlated with another. Variational inference is used to approximate posterior inference in CTM. The model is shown to provide a better fit than LDA on a corpus of journal articles.
The document describes a system for semantic textual similarity (STS) that uses various techniques to estimate the semantic similarity between texts. The system combines lexical, syntactic, and semantic information sources using state-of-the-art algorithms. In SemEval 2016 tasks, the system achieved a mean Pearson correlation of 75.7% on the monolingual English task and 86.3% on the cross-lingual Spanish-English task, ranking first in the cross-lingual task. The system utilizes techniques such as word embeddings, paragraph vectors, tree-structured LSTMs, and word alignment to capture semantic similarity.
An introduction to compositional models in distributional semanticsAndre Freitas
The document provides an overview of compositional distributional semantic models, which aim to develop principled and effective semantic models for real-world language use. It discusses using large corpora to extract distributional representations of word meanings and developing compositional models that combine these representations according to syntactic structure. Both additive and multiplicative mixture models as well as function-based models are described. Challenges including lack of training data and computational complexity are also outlined.
Discovering Novel Information with sentence Level clustering From Multi-docu...irjes
The document presents a novel fuzzy clustering algorithm called FRECCA that clusters sentences from multi-documents to discover new information. FRECCA uses fuzzy relational eigenvector centrality to calculate page rank scores for sentences within clusters, treating the scores as likelihoods. It uses expectation maximization to optimize cluster membership values and mixing coefficients without a parameterized likelihood function. An evaluation shows FRECCA achieves superior performance to other clustering algorithms on a quotations dataset, identifying overlapping clusters of semantically related sentences.
This document is a thesis submitted by Sihan Chen for a Master's degree in Statistics at the University of Chicago. It compares two topic models - Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and Von Mises-Fisher (vMF) clustering. LDA uses variational inference to approximate the posterior distribution of topics, while vMF clustering incorporates word embeddings. The thesis experiments with topic assignments, word co-occurrence, and pointwise mutual information to compare the two models.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Development (IJERD)IJERD Editor
International Journal of Engineering Research and Development is an international premier peer reviewed open access engineering and technology journal promoting the discovery, innovation, advancement and dissemination of basic and transitional knowledge in engineering, technology and related disciplines.
Some alternative ways to find m ambiguous binary words corresponding to a par...ijcsa
Parikh matrix of a word gives numerical information of the word in terms of its subwords. In this Paper an
algorithm for finding Parikh matrix of a binary word is introduced. With the help of this algorithm Parikh
matrix of a binary word, however large it may be can be found out. M-ambiguous words are the problem of
Parikh matrix. In this paper an algorithm is shown to find the M- ambiguous words of a binary ordered
word instantly. We have introduced a system to represent binary words in a two dimensional field. We see
that there are some relations among the representations of M-ambiguous words in the two dimensional
field. We have also introduced a set of equations which will help us to calculate the M- ambiguous words.
This document describes two open source software tools, UMLS-Interface and UMLS-Similarity, for measuring the semantic similarity between biomedical concepts using the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). UMLS-Interface extracts concept path information from the UMLS. UMLS-Similarity uses this information to calculate semantic similarity scores between concepts using various path-based measures. The tools were validated by reproducing results from previous studies on concept similarity.
The document summarizes a tutorial on word sense disambiguation (WSD) given at AAAI-2005. It introduces the problem of WSD, outlines different approaches including knowledge-intensive methods, supervised learning, minimally supervised and unsupervised learning. The tutorial aims to introduce WSD and persuade the audience to work on and apply WSD in their text applications.
This document provides an overview of a tutorial on word sense disambiguation (WSD). The tutorial aims to introduce the problem of WSD and various approaches, including knowledge-intensive methods, supervised learning approaches, and unsupervised learning. It covers the history of WSD, theoretical connections to other fields, practical applications, and an outline of the different parts of the tutorial.
The document discusses techniques for discriminating between different meanings (senses) of words based on their usage context. It presents a methodology that clusters similar contexts of a target word based on lexical features. Contexts are represented as vectors, and similarities are measured to group contexts and label clusters. Experimental results show second-order representations that capture indirect relationships generally perform better, while first-order may be better for larger, more homogeneous data. Software tools described implement various natural language processing and word sense discrimination techniques.
Some thoughts on what it's like to do a Master's thesis with me, including general ideas about research, my research interests, and a few suggestions as to what will lead to success
The document describes experiments conducted to evaluate measures of association for identifying the compositionality of word pairs. It discusses two hypotheses: 1) word pairs with higher association scores are less compositional, and 2) more frequent word pairs are more compositional. Three systems are described that use different measures of association (t-score, PMI, PMI) to classify word pair compositionality in a shared task. While the t-score performed best at identifying compositionality, PMI and frequency-based measures showed less success.
The document discusses the history and evolution of dictionaries from the first English dictionary in 1604 to modern computational approaches using natural language processing. It describes early dictionaries like Robert Cawdrey's Table Alphabeticall and Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language. Later influential dictionaries included Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language and the Oxford English Dictionary. The document proposes that natural language processing techniques like analyzing word frequencies, collocations, and measures of association could help identify emerging words and senses in new text, similar to the work of lexicographers in compiling dictionaries.
The document discusses measuring similarity between concepts and contexts. It describes using structured knowledge bases like WordNet to measure conceptual similarity and knowledge-lean methods based on word co-occurrence from corpora to measure contextual similarity. These techniques can be applied to problems like word sense disambiguation, where the intended sense of an ambiguous word depends on its surrounding context.
EVALution 1.0 - An Evolving Semantic Dataset for Trainining and Evaluation of...Enrico Santus Aversano
These slides introduce EVALution 1.0, a dataset designed for the training and the evaluation of Distributional Semantic Models (DSMs). This version consists of almost 7.5K tuples, instantiating several semantic relations between word pairs (including hypernymy, synonymy, antonymy, meronymy). The dataset is enriched with a large amount of additional information (i.e. relation domain, word frequency,
word POS, word semantic field, etc.) that can be used for either filtering the pairs or performing an in-depth analysis of the results. The tuples were extracted from a combination of ConceptNet 5.0 and WordNet 4.0, and subsequently filtered through automatic methods and crowdsourcing in order to ensure their quality. The dataset is freely downloadable. An extension in RDF format, including also scripts for data
processing, is under development.
This document describes UMLS::Similarity, an open source software that measures the semantic similarity or relatedness of biomedical terms from the Unified Medical Language Systems (UMLS). It provides several measures to quantify similarity/relatedness based on the hierarchical structure and definitions of terms in the UMLS. The software can be used via command line, API, or web interface and has been used in applications like word sense disambiguation.
The document describes a study that cross-evaluates several entity linking and word sense disambiguation systems on clinical text data. The study finds that generic systems like TagMe and BabelFly are competitive with the domain-specific MetaMap system, and resolving entity links through DBpedia improves performance. While MetaMap outperforms the other systems on some metrics, TagMe achieves the highest F1 score overall, though the difference is small.
DDH 2021-03-03: Text Processing and Searching in the Medical DomainLuukBoulogne
This document summarizes Gianmaria Silvello's presentation on text processing and searching in the medical domain. It includes an introduction to text processing and outlines the typical text processing pipeline which includes steps like tokenization, stopword removal, stemming, part-of-speech tagging, and named entity recognition. It then provides an example of applying this pipeline to a short medical report about a colon biopsy. Finally, it discusses term representations and how distributed representations are used to define similarity between terms in order to represent their meanings.
The document discusses various approaches to word sense disambiguation including supervised learning approaches like Naive Bayes classifiers, bootstrapping approaches like assigning one sense per discourse, and unsupervised approaches like Schutze's word space model. It also discusses using lexical semantic information like thematic roles, selectional restrictions, and WordNet to disambiguate word senses in context.
This presentation aspires to pinpoint the necessity of eliminating homonyms and synonyms. It attempts to illustrate the impact of misinforming that results from lexical disorder within the context of cross-disciplinary transfer of knowledge, standards setting and global business communication. The examples of homonyms and synonyms that have been observed to cause misinterpretations are presented. The genuine need for introducing a multidisciplinary transparent lexicon is advocated. A definition of a term "definition" is presented. Exemplary definitions are provided as models of transparent lexical terms. It is recommended that a hierarchy of terminology be adopted, giving the most fundamental disciplines the priority, and making sure that the other disciplines conform. A properly defined term is an information probability intensifier.
This document discusses data mining of radiology reports to structure unstructured text for further analysis. Over 500,000 de-identified radiology reports containing over 36 million words were annotated by experts to assign sentences to categories called propositions. So far over 427,000 unique sentences have been annotated, representing 60% of total sentences. The structured data is stored in a database and can be analyzed to find frequent findings and compare normal vs. abnormal results. Similar prior works are discussed but the large scale of this dataset and expert validation sets it apart.
The document summarizes a study that used lexical frequency software to analyze and compare the writing styles of native English speakers and advanced French-speaking English learners. The software generated frequency profiles of word categories and individual words. The analysis found that learner writing overused determiners, pronouns, and adverbs, while underusing conjunctions, prepositions, and nouns compared to native writing. More detailed analysis revealed specific words that were significantly over- or underused, such as learners overusing the pronoun "I" and underusing subordinating conjunctions. The study aims to demonstrate how automatic profiling can reveal stylistic characteristics of learner language.
Marcelo Funes-Gallanzi - Simplish - Computational intelligence unconferenceDaniel Lewis
At the computational intelligence unconference 2014, Marcelo Funes-Gallanzi presented Simplish, a system for the conversion of text into Simple English. Here are his slides.
Subjective Probabilistic Knowledge Grading and ComprehensionWaqas Tariq
Probabilistic Comprehension and Modeling is one of the newest areas in information extraction, text linguistics. Though much of the research vested in linguistics and information extraction is probabilistic, the importance is disappeared in 80’s. This is just because of the input language is noisy, ambiguous and segmented. Probability theory is certainly normative for solving the problems related to uncertainty. Perhaps human language processing is simply non-optimal, non-rational process. Subjective Probabilistic approach fixes this problem, through scenario, evidence and hypothesis.
The document discusses issues with using speech act theory and the HL7 Reference Information Model (RIM) to achieve semantic interoperability in electronic health records. It argues that representing all clinical information as "acts" in the RIM is problematic and may confuse lexical and contextual meaning. Classifying observations and other constituted facts as persistent entities rather than acts may be more accurate. Requiring full metadata for each data fragment may also be unnecessary and redundant.
کچھ عرصہ قبل جامعہ گجرات کے شعبہ علوم ترجمعہ میں ایک پرزنٹیشن دینے کا موقع ملا۔ محترم محمد کامران لیکچرار ڈیپارٹمنٹ ہذا کی خواہش پر سلائڈز شئر کر دی گئی ہیں سلائڈز مندرجہ ذیل لنک سے حاصل کی جا سکتی ہیں۔
پرزنٹیشن کی ویڈیو انشاءاللہ جلد اپلوڈ کر دی جائے گی۔
Chapter 2 Text Operation and Term Weighting.pdfJemalNesre1
Zipf's law describes the frequency distribution of words in natural language corpora. It states that the frequency of any word is inversely proportional to its rank in the frequency table. Most words have low frequency, while a few words are used very frequently. Heap's law estimates how vocabulary size grows with corpus size, at a sub-linear rate. Text preprocessing techniques like stopword removal and stemming aim to reduce noise by excluding non-discriminative words from indexes.
Improving Correlation with Human Judgments by Integrating Second-Order Vector...Ted Pedersen
1) The document presents a method for improving measures of relatedness between medical concepts by integrating semantic similarity scores into second-order concept vectors.
2) Evaluating the method on standard test sets shows it achieves state-of-the-art correlation with human judgments of both concept similarity and relatedness.
3) Future work is discussed to further optimize the approach, including exploring different concept definition sources and automatic threshold setting for similarity scores.
This document summarizes a transcript from the PEMT '06 conference discussing challenges with terminology across disciplines and proposes approaches to address ambiguities. It notes how knowledge evolution has led to specialized terminology that may only be understood by experts, hindering cross-disciplinary communication. Defining terms unambiguously is important for knowledge management. The document provides examples of ambiguous terms like homonyms and synonyms and proposes establishing a transparent, inter-disciplinary lexicon using fundamental disciplines like physics and mathematics to prioritize terms. It emphasizes the need to review scientific terminology to remove ambiguity and proposes criteria to clearly define terms.
T H E B E H A V I O R A N A L Y S T T O D A Y .docxdeanmtaylor1545
This document provides an introduction to Relational Frame Theory (RFT) by comparing it to Lang's cognitive model of a fear network. It summarizes RFT's key principles of relational responding and framing relationships between stimuli. The document introduces an RFT account of Lang's fear network model to highlight how RFT analyzes explicit and implicit relationships between thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and physiological responses. It explains how discriminating relational frames allows one to glean more information from stimuli than looking at them individually, but can also lead to psychological problems if relational responding gets out of control.
Co-word analyses study the co-occurrence of pairs of items (for example, keywords) that are representative in a document, to identify relations between the ideas presented in the
texts.
Slides for Muslims in ML workshop presentation at NeurlPS 2020 on December 8, 2020 - this is a shorter 25 minute version of the UMass Lowell talk of November 2020 (so the slides are a subset of that).
The document discusses automatically identifying Islamophobia in social media text. It begins by introducing the speaker and their areas of research, including hate speech detection. It then provides background on Islamophobia, discussing its origins and definitions. The remainder of the document outlines a project to collect and annotate Twitter data containing mentions of Ilhan Omar to detect Islamophobic sentiment, discussing the pilot annotation process and lessons learned.
Hate speech is language intended to cause harm against a particular individual or group, often based on their racial, ethnic, religious, or gender identity. Hate speech is widespread on social media, and is increasingly common in mainstream political discourse. That said, there is no clear consensus as to what constitutes hate speech. In addition, human moderators come with their own biases, and automatic computer algorithms are often easy to fool. All of these factors complicate the efforts of social media platforms to filter or reduce such content. During this interactive workshop we will discuss examples from Twitter in the hopes of reaching some consensus as to what is and is not hate speech. We will also try to determine what kind of knowledge a human moderator or an automatic algorithm would need to have in order to make this determination. We will try to avoid particularly graphic examples of hate speech and focus on more subtle cases.
Talk on Algorithmic Bias given at York University (Canada) on March 11, 2019. This is a shorter version of an interactive workshop presented at University of Minnesota, Duluth in Feb 2019.
The document summarizes research on using lexical decision lists to screen Twitter users for depression and PTSD. It finds that a simple machine learning method using n-grams of varying length up to 6 words and binary weighting achieved the best results. Emoticons and emojis were strong indicators. The top features indicating depression included terms expressing sadness, while PTSD indicators included abbreviations and URLs. It suggests self-reporting of conditions may indicate something else requiring discussion.
Poster presented at the Semeval 2015 workshop. Our system clustered words based on their contexts in order to identify their underlying meanings or senses.
This document provides an overview of what it would be like to complete a Master's thesis under Dr. Ted Pedersen. It discusses that research involves asking interesting questions about the world and conducting experiments to answer those questions. Dr. Pedersen's research interests include natural language processing tasks like word sense disambiguation, semantic similarity, and collocation discovery. To succeed, a student needs enthusiasm for research, strong writing skills, and the ability to work independently while communicating regularly with Dr. Pedersen. Previous students have explored various NLP topics and many have gone on to PhD programs. The reading provided is intended to assess the student's understanding and interest in Dr. Pedersen's research areas.
This document summarizes a tutorial on measuring the similarity and relatedness of concepts. It discusses the distinction between semantic similarity and relatedness. It describes several common measures of similarity that use information from ontologies, such as path-based measures, measures that incorporate path and depth, and measures that incorporate information content. It also discusses measures of relatedness that can be used for concepts that are not connected by ontological relations, such as definition-based measures and measures based on gloss vectors constructed from corpus data. Experimental results generally show that gloss vector measures perform best, followed by definition-based measures, with path-based measures performing the worst.
The document discusses word sense induction systems developed at the University of Minnesota Duluth that were used to cluster web search results. The systems represented web snippets using second-order co-occurrences and were evaluated in Task 11 of SemEval-2013. The best performing system (Sys1) used more data in the form of web-like text and achieved an F-10 score of 46.53, outperforming systems that used larger amounts of out-of-domain news text. Future work could look at augmenting data by expanding snippets and using more web-based resources like Wikipedia.
The document discusses replicability and reproducibility in ACL conferences. It argues that empirical papers should include software and data so results can be reproduced. An analysis found that most papers from ACL 2011 did not include software or data. Generally descriptions were incomplete and few papers allowed true reproducibility. The author calls for higher standards, weighting replicability more in reviews, and removing blind submissions to improve transparency.
This document summarizes research comparing different methods of measuring semantic similarity between concepts based on information content. It finds that using untagged text to derive information content, rather than the largest sense-tagged corpus, results in higher correlation with human judgments of similarity. Experiments showed no advantage to using sense-tagged text and that information content measures outperformed path-based measures, with estimates based just on taxonomy structure performing almost as well as using raw newspaper text.
The document discusses language independent methods for clustering similar contexts without using syntactic or lexical resources. It describes representing contexts as vectors of lexical features, reducing dimensionality, and clustering the vectors. Key methods include identifying unigram, bigram and co-occurrence features from corpora using frequency counts and association measures, and representing contexts in first or second order vectors based on feature presence.
The document describes language-independent methods for clustering similar contexts without using syntactic or lexical resources. It discusses representing contexts as vectors of lexical features and clustering them based on similarity. Feature selection involves identifying unigrams, bigrams, and co-occurrences based on frequency or association measures. Contexts can then be represented in first-order or second-order feature spaces and clustered. Applications include word sense discrimination, document clustering, and name discrimination.
The document discusses language-independent methods for clustering similar contexts without using syntactic or lexical information from annotated resources. It describes representing contexts as vectors based on lexical features, and clustering the vectors to group similar contexts. Contexts can be headed, containing a target word, or headless. Features include unigrams, bigrams, and co-occurrences, identified by frequency or association measures. Contexts can be represented in first-order vectors based on feature presence, or second-order vectors averaging word co-occurrence vectors.
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Pharmacological actions-
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2) Antiallergic actions-Many manifestations of immediate hypersensitivity (type I reactions)are suppressed. Urticaria, itching and angioedema are well controlled.3) CNS action-The older antihistamines produce variable degree of CNS depression.But in case of 2nd gen antihistaminics there is less CNS depressant property as these cross BBB to significantly lesser extent.
4) Anticholinergic action- many H1 blockers
in addition antagonize muscarinic actions of ACh. BUT IN 2ND gen histaminics there is Higher H1 selectivitiy : no anticholinergic side effects
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Allopurinol, a uric acid synthesis inhibitor acts by inhibiting Xanthine oxidase competitively as well as non- competitively, Whereas Oxypurinol is a non-competitive inhibitor of xanthine oxidase.
Congestive Heart failure is caused by low cardiac output and high sympathetic discharge. Diuretics reduce preload, ACE inhibitors lower afterload, beta blockers reduce sympathetic activity, and digitalis has inotropic effects. Newer medications target vasodilation and myosin activation to improve heart efficiency while lowering energy requirements. Combination therapy, following an assessment of cardiac function and volume status, is the most effective strategy to heart failure care.
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Skin is the largest organ of the human body, serving crucial functions that include protection, sensation, regulation, and synthesis. Structurally, it consists of three main layers: the epidermis, dermis, and hypodermis (subcutaneous layer).
1. **Epidermis**: The outermost layer primarily composed of epithelial cells called keratinocytes. It provides a protective barrier against environmental factors, pathogens, and UV radiation.
2. **Dermis**: Located beneath the epidermis, the dermis contains connective tissue, blood vessels, hair follicles, and sweat glands. It plays a vital role in supporting and nourishing the epidermis, regulating body temperature, and housing sensory receptors for touch, pressure, temperature, and pain.
3. **Hypodermis**: Also known as the subcutaneous layer, it consists of fat and connective tissue that anchors the skin to underlying structures like muscles and bones. It provides insulation, cushioning, and energy storage.
Skin performs essential functions such as regulating body temperature through sweat production and blood flow control, synthesizing vitamin D when exposed to sunlight, and serving as a sensory interface with the external environment.
Maintaining skin health is crucial for overall well-being, involving proper hygiene, hydration, protection from sun exposure, and avoiding harmful substances. Skin conditions and diseases range from minor irritations to chronic disorders, emphasizing the importance of regular care and medical attention when needed.
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Acne is a common skin condition that occurs when hair follicles become clogged with oil and dead skin cells. It typically manifests as pimples, blackheads, or whiteheads, often on the face, chest, shoulders, or back. Acne can range from mild to severe and may cause emotional distress and scarring in some cases.
**Causes:**
1. **Excess Oil Production:** Hormonal changes during adolescence or certain times in adulthood can increase sebum (oil) production, leading to clogged pores.
2. **Clogged Pores:** When dead skin cells and oil block hair follicles, bacteria (usually Propionibacterium acnes) can thrive, causing inflammation and acne lesions.
3. **Hormonal Factors:** Fluctuations in hormone levels, such as during puberty, menstrual cycles, pregnancy, or certain medical conditions, can contribute to acne.
4. **Genetics:** A family history of acne can increase the likelihood of developing the condition.
**Types of Acne:**
- **Whiteheads:** Closed plugged pores.
- **Blackheads:** Open plugged pores with a dark surface.
- **Papules:** Small red, tender bumps.
- **Pustules:** Pimples with pus at their tips.
- **Nodules:** Large, solid, painful lumps beneath the surface.
- **Cysts:** Painful, pus-filled lumps beneath the surface that can cause scarring.
**Treatment:**
Treatment depends on the severity and type of acne but may include:
- **Topical Treatments:** Such as benzoyl peroxide, salicylic acid, or retinoids to reduce bacteria and unclog pores.
- **Oral Medications:** Antibiotics or oral contraceptives for hormonal acne.
- **Procedures:** Such as chemical peels, extraction of comedones, or light therapy for more severe cases.
**Prevention and Management:**
- **Cleanse:** Regularly wash skin with a gentle cleanser.
- **Moisturize:** Use non-comedogenic moisturizers to keep skin hydrated without clogging pores.
- **Avoid Irritants:** Such as harsh cosmetics or excessive scrubbing.
- **Sun Protection:** Use sunscreen to prevent exacerbation of acne scars and inflammation.
Acne treatment can take time, and consistency in skincare routines and treatments is crucial. Consulting a dermatologist can help tailor a treatment plan that suits individual needs and reduces the risk of scarring or long-term skin damage.
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