Aggregating UMLS semantic types for reducing conceptual complexity

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 84, Issue , 2001, Pages 216-220

  McCray, Alexa T ^a   Burgun, Anita ^a   Bodenreider, Olivier ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowledge Representation; Medical Informatics; Unified Medical Language System

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

BASIC PRINCIPLES; BIOMEDICAL VOCABULARIES; IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURES; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; SEMANTIC NETWORK; SEMANTIC TYPES; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEMS;

SEMANTICS;

ARTICLE; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SEMANTICS;

SEMANTICS; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 84888064144     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-928-8-216     Document Type: Conference Paper

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