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