Semantic distance-based creation of clusters of pharmacovigilance terms and their evaluation
Semantic methods are exploited for improving pharmacovigilance survey. Terms clustering is used for intensifying the pharmacovigilance signal. Semantic similarity measures are suitable for the creation of ADR term groupings. Generated clusters are smaller and more precise than the reference groupings. Clusters may gather terms which are missing in the reference groupings.
clustering pharmacovigilance terminology semantic distance and similarity meddra smqs