An automated approach to mapping external terminologies to the UMLS

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1598-1605

  Taboada, María ^a   Lalín, Rosario ^a   Martínez, Diego ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ontology matching; Terminology mapping; Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED APPROACH; AUTOMATED METHODS; CRITICAL ISSUES; INFORMATION SHARING; MAPPING PROCESS; MATCHING METHODS; ONTOLOGY MATCHING; SEQUENTIAL COMBINATION; STRUCTURE-BASED; TERMINOLOGY MAPPING; UMLS METATHESAURUS; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM (UMLS); UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATION; INTEROPERABILITY; LINGUISTICS; ONTOLOGY; TERMINOLOGY;

MAPPING;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; METAPHYSICS; NOMENCLATURE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 67650641243     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2015651     Document Type: Article

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