Enabling semantic similarity estimation across multiple ontologies: An evaluation in the biomedical domain

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 141-155

  Sánchez, David ^a   Solé Ribalta, Albert ^a   Batet, Montserrat ^a   Serratosa, Francesc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

MeSH; Multiple ontologies; Semantic similarity; WordNet

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL DOMAIN; HETEROGENEOUS KNOWLEDGE; MATCHINGS; MESH; ONTOLOGY-BASED; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; SIMILARITY ASSESSMENT; SIMILARITY ESTIMATION; WORDNET;

ESTIMATION; SEMANTICS;

ONTOLOGY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; CONSENSUS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TAXONOMY;

ALGORITHMS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; SEMANTICS; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM;

EID: 84856369120     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2011.10.005     Document Type: Article

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