A structural partition of the Unified Medical Language System´s semantic network

Author

Chen, Zong ; Halper, Michael ; Geller, James ; Per, Yehoshua

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., New Jersey Inst. of Technol., Newark, NJ, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

296

Lastpage

301

Abstract

The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) integrates many well-established biomedical terminologies. The UMLS´s semantic network (SN) can help orient users to the vast knowledge content of the Metathesaurus via its abstract conceptual view. However, the SN itself is large and complex, and may still be difficult to comprehend. Our technique partitions the SN into even higher-level abstract entities which are amenable to display on limited-sized computer screens. The basis for the partitioning is the distribution of the relationships within the SN. The results of applying our technique to the UMLS are discussed

Keywords

medical expert systems; nomenclature; semantic networks; thesauri; UMLS Metathesaurus; Unified Medical Language System; abstract conceptual view; biomedical terminologies; higher-level abstract entities; knowledge content; limited-sized computer screens; meta-semantic type; relationships distribution; semantic network; structural partitioning; Computational Intelligence Society; Computer displays; Computer science; Knowledge representation; Large screen displays; Libraries; Marine vehicles; Terminology; Tin; Unified modeling language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, 2000. Proceedings. 2000 IEEE EMBS International Conference on

Conference_Location

Arlington, VA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6449-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITAB.2000.892404

Filename

892404