| Challenge: | Currently, there is no tool for this language and for this specific purpose. |
| Approach: | They propose a multilingual and cross-lingual tool that searches for biomedical terms in clinical texts with the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Metathesaurus. |
| Outcome: | The proposed tool performs biomedical term normalization in clinical texts with the unified medical language system (UMLS) Metathesaurus . it is based on Apache Lucene TM and is available on-line 2 . |
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