Towards a semantic integration of medical relational databases by using ontologies: A case study

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2889, Issue , 2003, Pages 137-150

  Deray, Tom ^a   Verheyden, Pieter ^b  

^a Language and Computing nv (LandC)   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Coupling language; Database integration; Medical ontology; Medical relational databases; Ontology tools; Semantic integration

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; QUERY PROCESSING; SEMANTICS;

DATABASE INTEGRATION; MEDICAL ONTOLOGY; ONTOLOGY TOOLS; RELATIONAL DATABASE; SEMANTIC INTEGRATION;

INTEGRATION;

EID: 0242628320     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-39962-9_25     Document Type: Article

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