OQAFMA Querying Agent for the Foundational Model of Anatomy: A prototype for providing flexible and efficient access to large semantic networks

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 501-517

  Mork, Peter ^a,b   Brinkley, James F ^a,b   Rosse, Cornelius ^b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Database management systems; Databases; Information management; Information storage and retrieval; Programming languages; Unified medical language system

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; EVALUATION; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MODEL; OQAFMA QUERYING AGENT FOR THE FOUNDATIONAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0842348243     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2003.11.004     Document Type: Article

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