<p>This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</p> <p>This paper explores the use of the resources in the National Library of Medicine's
Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) for the construction of a lexicon useful
for processing texts in the field of molecular biology. A lexicon is constructed from
overlapping terms in the UMLS SPECIALIST lexicon and the UMLS Metathesaurus
to obtain both morphosyntactic and semantic information for terms, and the coverage
of a domain corpus is assessed. Over 77% of tokens in the domain corpus are found in
the constructed lexicon, validating the lexicon's coverage of the most frequent terms
in the domain and indicating that the constructed lexicon is potentially an important
resource for biological text processing.</p>
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Comp Funct Genomics. 2005 Feb-Mar; 6(1-2):61-66