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. 2006;2006:274–278.

Table 3.

Area of usage of the UMLS

Area of usage % of users
terminology research 53%
terminology mapping 35%
terminology building 33%
information indexing/retrieval 31%
natural language processing 21%
knowledge acquisition 20%
concept discovery 19%
terminology service 14%
access to terminologies 13%
terminology publishing 6%
other 5%