Semantic enrichment for medical ontologies

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 209-226

  Lee, Yugyung ^a   Geller, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Controlled Medical Vocabularies; Ontology; Semantic enrichment; Semantic Web; Semantics; Terminology; Two level ontology; Unified Medical Language System

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY; WEBSITES;

CONTROLLED MEDICAL VOCABULARIES; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTIC ENRICHMENT; SEMANTIC WEB; TWO-LEVEL ONTOLOGY; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

ARTICLE; INTEGRATION; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; TAXONOMY;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM;

EID: 33644946281     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2005.08.001     Document Type: Article

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