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The UMLS semantic network was used as a seed ontology, and was extended and enriched with the extracted concepts and semantic relations using Prot\u00e9g\u00e9.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>Only half of the semantic relations extracted manually were defined (or inferable) in the UMLS semantic network. The remaining half could be added to the network to extend its coverage. 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