Aspects of the taxonomic relation in the biomedical domain

Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Collected Papers from the Second International Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 222-233

  Burgun, Anita ^a   Bodenreider, Olivier ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical domain; Ontology; Taxonomic relation; Unified Medical Language System

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MEDICINE;

BIOMEDICAL DOMAIN;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0035789785     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/505168.505190     Document Type: Conference Paper

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