Measuring semantic similarity between biomedical concepts within multiple ontologies

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 389-398

  Al Mubaid, Hisham ^a   Nguyen, Hoa A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical information retrieval; Biomedical ontology; Biomedical terminology; Semantic similarity; Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; BIOMEDICAL ONTOLOGY; BIOMEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM (UMLS);

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 67649277492     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2009.2020689     Document Type: Article

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