Yes, that is correct, the terms must match exactly, no partial matching is done.
On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 3:10 PM, <cruzin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Just making sure... > In order to get a similarity score for a phrase(term) pair, the UMLS > database must have an entry that matches both phrases exactly. In other > words, we won't get similarity scores for phrase pairs in which one or both > phrases match a UMLS phrase partially? > > Example queries using the web-interface. > > Query1: > Term1: Paresis, Term2: Facial Paresis > > The similarity of Paresis > (C0030552<http://atlas.ahc.umn.edu/cgi-bin/umls_similarity.cgi?word1=Paresis&word2=Facial+Paresis&sab=SNOMEDCT_US&rel=PAR%2FCHD&similarity=cdist&button=Compute+Similarity&sabdef=UMLS_ALL&reldef=CUI%2FPAR%2FCHD%2FRB%2FRN&relatedness=vector#>) > and Facial Paresis ( > C0427055<http://atlas.ahc.umn.edu/cgi-bin/umls_similarity.cgi?word1=Paresis&word2=Facial+Paresis&sab=SNOMEDCT_US&rel=PAR%2FCHD&similarity=cdist&button=Compute+Similarity&sabdef=UMLS_ALL&reldef=CUI%2FPAR%2FCHD%2FRB%2FRN&relatedness=vector#>) > using Conceptual Distance (cdist) is -1. > Using: > > SAB :: include SNOMEDCT_US > > REL :: include PAR/CHD > > > Query2: > > Term1: Paresis, Term2: Facial > Warnings/Errors: > Facial was not found in SNOMEDCT_US > > Thanks! > > > -- Ted Pedersen http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse
