getIC.pl - This program returns the information content of a concept or a term.
This program takes in a CUI or a term and returns its information content.
Usage: getIC.pl [OPTION] [CUI|TERM]
Concept Unique Identifier (CUI) or a term from the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)
Uses intrinic information content of the CUIs defined by Sanchez and Betet 2011 or Seco, et al 2004.
Calculate information content using the frequency information in FILE. The file must be in the following format:
See the example files called icfrequency in the samples/ directory.
Calculate information content using the probability information in FILE. The file must be in the following format:
See the example files called icpropagation in the samples/ directory.
This is the configuration file. The format of the configuration file is as follows:
SAB :: <include|exclude> <source1, source2, ... sourceN>
REL :: <include|exclude> <relation1, relation2, ... relationN>
RELA :: <include|exclude> <rela1, rela2, ... relaN> (optional)
For example, if we wanted to use the MSH vocabulary with only the RB/RN relations, the configuration file would be:
SAB :: include MSH REL :: include RB, RN RELA :: include inverse_isa, isa
SAB :: include MSH REL :: exclude PAR, CHD
If you go to the configuration file directory, there will be example configuration files for the different runs that you have performed.
Incorporate Laplace smoothing, where the frequency count of each of the concepts in the taxonomy is incremented by one. The advantage of doing this is that it avoides having a concept that has a probability of zero. The disadvantage is that it can shift the overall probability mass of the concepts from what is actually seen in the corpus.
This option will not create a database of the information content for all of concepts in the specified set of sources and relations in the config file
Takes a file of CUIs (one per line) and returns their information content.
Sets the debug flag for testing
Username is required to access the umls database on MySql unless it was specified in the my.cnf file at installation
Password is required to access the umls database on MySql unless it was specified in the my.cnf file at installation
Hostname where mysql is located. DEFAULT: localhost
The socket your mysql is using. DEFAULT: /tmp/mysql.sock
Database contain UMLS DEFAULT: umls
Displays the quick summary of program options.
Displays the version information.
List of CUIs that are associated with the input term
Bridget T. McInnes, University of Minnesota
Copyright (c) 2007-2009,
Bridget T. McInnes, University of Minnesota bthomson at cs.umn.edu Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota Duluth tpederse at d.umn.edu Siddharth Patwardhan, University of Utah, Salt Lake City firstname.lastname@example.org Serguei Pakhomov, University of Minnesota Twin Cities email@example.com
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