Using WordNet synonym substitution to enhance UMLS source integration

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 97-109

  Huang, Kuo Chuan ^a   Geller, James ^a   Halper, Michael ^b   Perl, Yehoshua ^a   Xu, Junchuan ^a  

^a University Heights   (United States)

^b KEAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Integration audit; Source integration; Synonym generation; Synonym substitution; Synonymy; UMLS; WordNet

Indexed keywords

SOURCE INTEGRATION; SYNONYM GENERATION; SYNONYM SUBSTITUTION; SYNONYMY; UMLS; WORDNET;

EXPERIMENTS; INTEGRATION; TERMINOLOGY;

SEMANTICS;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL;

ALGORITHMS; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM;

EID: 67349280352     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2008.11.008     Document Type: Article

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