@inproceedings{ef9bf2e294b24af9948a03031ada6841,
title = "Evaluating the relevance of UMLS knowledge base for public health informatics during disasters",
abstract = "During disasters public health organizations increasingly face challenges in acquiring and transforming real-time data into knowledge about the dynamic public health needs. Resources on the internet can provide valuable information for extracting knowledge that can help improve decisions which will ultimately result in targeted and efficient health services. Digital content such as online articles, blogs, and social media are some of such information sources that could be leveraged to improve the health care systems during disasters. To efficiently and accurately identify relevant disaster health information, extraction tools require a common vocabulary that is aligned to the health domain so that the knowledge from these unstructured digital sources can be accurately structured and organized. In this paper, we study the degree to which the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) contains relevant disaster, public health, and medical concepts for which public health information in disaster domain could be extracted from digital sources.",
keywords = "Disaster informatics, Health informatics, Metathesaurus, Public health, UMLS",
author = "Yasas Senarath and Chan, {Jennifer L.} and Hemant Purohit and Ozlem Uzuner",
note = "Funding Information: Purohit thanks the U.S. National Science Foundation grants (1815459 and 2029719) for partially supporting this research. All findings and opinions are of authors and not sponsors. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM. All rights reserved.; 18th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2021 ; Conference date: 23-05-2021 Through 26-05-2021",
year = "2021",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the International ISCRAM Conference",
publisher = "Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM",
pages = "97--105",
editor = "Anouck Adrot and Rob Grace and Kathleen Moore and Zobel, {Christopher W.}",
booktitle = "ISCRAM 2021 - Proceedings",
}
