“…Studies have shown that currently there is a mismatch between general terminologies, such as WordNet (Miller, ), and technical medical terminologies, such as the UMLS (Burgun & Bodenreider, ). Recent work has been proposed to address this issue by developing methods for building consumer health vocabularies (Cardillo, ; Elhadad, ; Elhadad & Sutaria, ; Smith & Fellbaum, ; Zeng & Tony, ). One of the recent largest initiatives is the Consumer Health Vocabulary Initiative at the Harvard Medical School, which has developed the Open Source Collaborative Consumer Health Vocabulary (OSC CHV), and which aims to link lay medical terms to their corresponding technical concepts from the UMLS Metathesaurus (Keselman, Logan, Smith, Leroy, Zeng‐Treitler, Q., , Keselman, Smith, Divita, Kim, Browne, Leroy, Zeng‐Treitler, ; Zeng & Tony, ).…”