Towards new information resources for public health-From WordNet to MedicalWordNet

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 321-332

  Fellbaum, Christiane ^a,b   Hahn, Udo ^c   Smith, Barry ^d,e  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Saxonian Academy of Sciences   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Expert terminology; Layperson's terminology; Lexical database; Medical terminology; MedicalFactNet; MedicalWordNet; WordNet

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MEDICINE; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

EXPERT TERMINOLOGY; LAYPERSON'S TERMINOLOGY; LEXICAL DATABASE; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; MEDICALFACTNET; MEDICALWORDNET; WORDNET;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; BIOINFORMATICS; DATA BASE; LANGUAGE; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS; BIOLOGY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METHODOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PUBLIC HEALTH;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PUBLIC HEALTH; TERMINOLOGY; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 33745944881     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2005.09.004     Document Type: Article

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