Terminology and concept representation languages: Where are we?

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-4

  Rector, Alan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TERMINOLOGY;

MEDICAL INFORMATICS;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

COMPUTER SYSTEM; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0032952096     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0933-3657(98)00042-6     Document Type: Editorial

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