Effectiveness of UMLS semantic network as a seed ontology for building a medical domain ontology

Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 32-46

  Na, Jin Cheon ^a   Neoh, Hock Leng ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Knowledge engineering; Medical information systems; Semantics

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; ONTOLOGY;

INFORMATION EXTRACTION; MEDICAL DOMAIN ONTOLOGY; MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; SEMANTIC RELATIONS;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 38349178698     PISSN: 0001253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00012530810847353     Document Type: Article

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