Telemakus mines data tables and figures for locating concepts studied and tested as reported in a document. The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) is used to control indexing vocabulary.

Concepts are represented as pairings that denote a semantic association between two or more identified concepts. Concept relationships are the basis for generating the Telemakus MapIt! concept maps, which spatially represent knowledge in a visual format and display the interrelationships between documents and reported research findings.