Assessing the consistency of a biomedical terminology through lexical knowledge

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 67, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 85-95

  Bodenreider, Olivier ^a   Burgun, Anita ^b   Rindflesch, Thomas C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Lexical knowledge; SNOMED; Terminology; Unified Medical Language System

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DISEASES; LINGUISTICS; THESAURI;

ADJECTIVIAL MODIFERS;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SEMANTICS;

DICTIONARIES; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; VOCABULARY; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 2242487390     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1386-5056(02)00051-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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