An ontology-based measure to compute semantic similarity in biomedicine

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 118-125

  Batet, Montserrat ^a   Sánchez, David ^a   Valls, Aida ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biomedicine; Data mining; Ontologies; Semantic similarity; SNOMED CT

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL FIELDS; BIOMEDICAL ONTOLOGIES; BIOMEDICINE; CLINICAL DATA; HEALTHCARE RECORD; HUMAN EXPERT; KNOWLEDGE BASIS; KNOWLEDGE SOURCES; MEDICAL ONTOLOGY; MEDICAL TERMS; ONTOLOGY-BASED; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; SNOMED CT; TEXTUAL DATA; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; WORD SIMILARITY;

DATA MINING; SEMANTICS; TEXT PROCESSING;

ONTOLOGY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDLINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TAXONOMY;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DATA MINING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DOCUMENTATION; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 79952022327     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2010.09.002     Document Type: Article

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