Meeting medical terminology needs - The ontology-enhanced Medical Concept Mapper

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 261-270

  Leroy, G ^a   Chen, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ontologies; Parsing; Query expansion; Semantic parsing; Terminology mapping; UMLS

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; MEDICAL COMPUTING; ONLINE SEARCHING; SEMANTICS;

UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM (UMLS);

WEBSITES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NEOPLASM; NOMENCLATURE;

ALGORITHMS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NEOPLASMS; SOFTWARE; TERMINOLOGY; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0035530511     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4233.966101     Document Type: Article

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