Aligning knowledge sources in the UMLS: Methods, quantitative results, and applications

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 107, Issue , 2004, Pages 327-331

  Bodenreider, Olivier ^a   Burgun, Anita ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Alignment; Hierarchical relationships; UMLS

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; SEMANTICS;

HIERARCHICAL RELATIONSHIPS; KNOWLEDGE SOURCES; LEXICAL SIMILARITY; QUANTITATIVE RESULT; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SEMANTIC NETWORK; UMLS; UMLS METATHESAURUS; HIERARCHICAL RELATIONSHIP; METATHESAURUS; SEMANTIC TYPES; SEMANTICS NETWORKS;

SEMANTICS; ALIGNMENT;

CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM;

EID: 54949126670     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-949-3-327     Document Type: Article

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