A structural partition of the Unified Medical Language System's Semantic Network

Proceedings of the IEEE/EMBS Region 8 International Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, ITAB

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 296-301

  Chen, Z ^a   Halper, M ^a   Geller, J ^a   Perl, Y ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Meta semantic type; Partition; Semantic network; UMLS

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; TERMINOLOGY; USER INTERFACES;

SEMANTIC NETWORKS (SN); UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM (UMLS);

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

EID: 0034451829     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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