Consolidating SNOMED CT's ontological commitment

Applied Ontology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-11

  Schulz, Stefan ^a,b   Cornet, Ronald ^c   Spackman, Kent ^d  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d IHTSDO   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL SITUATIONS; CLINICAL TERMINOLOGY; LOGICAL AXIOMS; ONTOLOGICAL COMMITMENT; TRUTH VALUES;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 80052095821     PISSN: 15705838     EISSN: 18758533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/AO-2011-0084     Document Type: Article

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