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Table 4 Acquisition of semantic relations (hierarchical subsumption and synonymy) between the MedDRA terms

From: Exploitation of semantic methods to cluster pharmacovigilance terms

Relationships

Methods

Number of relations

Hierarchical relations

Lexical inclusion

3,366

Hierarchical relations

Morpho-syntactic variation with Faster

743

Synonymy relations

Compositionality with 3 biomed terminologies

1,879

Synonymy relations

Compositionality with 3 biomed terminologies and WordNet

1,939

Synonymy relations

Compositionality with the simple UMLS synonyms

190

Synonymy relations

Compositionality with the simple UMLS synonyms and WordNet

227

Synonymy relations

Morpho-syntactic variation with Faster

100