Formal ontology for natural language processing and the integration of biomedical databases

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 75, Issue 3-4 SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages 224-231

  Simon, Jonathan ^a,d   Dos Santos, Mariana ^b   Fielding, James ^a   Smith, Barry ^a,c  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Language and Computing Nv   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical data mining; Biomedical systems integration; Formal ontology; Medical natural language understanding; Medical terminologies

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA MINING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FORMAL LOGIC; MEDICAL COMPUTING;

BIOMEDICAL DATA-MINING; BIOMEDICAL SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; FORMAL ONTOLOGY; MEDICAL NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGIES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA BASE; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; METAPHYSICS; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZATION; SYSTEMATIZED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 33644532256     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2005.07.015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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