The final step is the disambiguation where the disease name is checked if it is a primary term or a synonym for another disease name.
As table I and table ll .Dnorm technique is evaluated based on its comparison with other matching techniques such as NLM exical normalization, Metamap inference Method, BANNER +lucene ,BANNER +cosine similarity
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