UMLS-Similarity
This package consists of Perl modules along with supporting Perl
programs that implement the semantic similarity and relatedness measures
described by Leacock & Chodorow (1998), Wu & Palmer (1994), Nguyen and
Al-Mubaid (2006), Rada, et. al. 1989, Patwardhan (2003), Jiang & Conrath
(1997), Resnik (1995), Lin (1998), Patwardhan and Pedersen (2006) and a
simple path based measure.
TESTING PLATFORMS
UMLS-Similarity has been developed and tested on Linux and Solaris,
primarily using Perl and the C shell (csh).
REQUIREMENTS
UMLS-Similarity REQUIRES that the following software be installed. More
details on how to obtain and install appear below.
--Programming Languages Perl (version 5.8.5 or better)
--CPAN modules UMLS::Interface
PROGGRAMMING LANGUAGES
Perl (version 5.8.5 or better)
Perl is freely available at:
<http://www.perl.org>
It is very likely that you will already have Perl installed if you are
using a Unix/Linux based system.
CPAN MODULES
UMLS-Interface
Please see the UMLS-Interface documentation.
INSTALLATION
If you have supervisor access, or have configured MCPAN for local
install, you can install via:
perl -MCPAN -e shell
> install UMLS-Similarity
If not, you can, "manually" install by downloading the *.tar.gz file,
unpacking, and executing the following commands.
perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/programs LIB=/home/lib
make
make test
make install
Note that the PREFIX and LIB settings are just examples to help you
create a local install, if you do not have supervisor (su) access.
You must include /home/lib in your PERL5LIB environment variable to
access this module when running.
If you have the super-user access, then you can install UMLS-Similarity
into system directories via : perl Makefile.PL make make install make
clean
The exact location of where UMLS-Similarity will be installed depends on
your system configuration. A message will be printed out after 'make
install' telling your exactly where it was installed.
CONTACT US
If you have any trouble installing and using UMLS-Interface, please
contact us via the users mailing list :
umls-similarity@yahoogroups.com
You can join this group by going to:
<http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/umls-similarity/>
You may also contact us directly if you prefer :
Bridget T. McInnes: bthomson at cs.umn.edu
Ted Pedersen : tpederse at d.umn.edu