Addressing the Challenge of Encoding Causal Epidemiological Knowledge in Formal Ontologies: A Practical Perspective

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 205, Issue , 2014, Pages 1125-1129

  Okhmatovskaia, Anya ^a   Shaban Nejad, Arash ^a   Lavigne, Maxime ^a   Buckeridge, David L ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

causality; formal ontologies; public health; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); ONTOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEMANTICS;

CAUSALITY; FORMAL ONTOLOGY; POPULATION HEALTH; UNCERTAINTY;

SIGNAL ENCODING;

ONTOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; BIOLOGICAL ONTOLOGY; CONTROLLED VOCABULARY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RECORD; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; SEMANTICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIOLOGICAL ONTOLOGIES; CAUSALITY; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 84929519611     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-432-9-1125     Document Type: Conference Paper

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