=head1 NAME FAQs.US.pod =head1 SYNOPSIS Listing the frequently asked questions about the UMLS-Similarity package. =head1 DESCRIPTION =head2 Functionality related questions : =head3 What measures of association/similarity can I use? Currently only path and Leacock & Chodorow (1998). We are in the process of adding the information content measures: Jiang & Conrath (1997), Resnik (1995) and Lin (1998). =head3 =head2 Package related questions : =head3 What is the earlist version of the UMLS that I can use? The package has been run and tested using UMLS 2008AA. We have plans to make this compatable with earlier versions of the UMLS and do our best to ensure that the package remains updated for future versions. =head1 SEE ALSO =head1 AUTHOR Bridget T. McInnes, University of Minnesota bthomson at cs.umn.edu =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2007, Bridget T. McInnes, University of Minnesota bthomson at cs.umn.edu Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth. tpederse at umn.edu This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to The Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. =cut