If ontology is the solution, what is the problem?

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 102, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-19

  Pisanelli, Domenico M ^a   Gangemi, Aldo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL GUIDELINE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HETEROGENEOUS KNOWLEDGE; LARGE CORPORA; ONTOLOGICAL APPROACH;

ONTOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HUMAN; ITALY; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NOMENCLATURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DISEASE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; ITALY; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; TERMINOLOGY; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM;

EID: 18944397796     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-945-5-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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