Adding an Attention Layer Improves the Performance of a Neural Network Architecture for Synonymy Prediction in the UMLS Metathesaurus.

Journal: Studies in health technology and informatics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Terminology integration at the scale of the UMLS Metathesaurus (i.e., over 200 source vocabularies) remains challenging despite recent advances in ontology alignment techniques based on neural networks.

Authors

  • Vinh Nguyen
    National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, USA.
  • Olivier Bodenreider
    National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.