Meeting medical terminology needs-the ontology-enhanced Medical Concept Mapper.

This paper describes the development and testing of the Medical Concept Mapper, a tool designed to facilitate access to online medical information sources by providing users with appropriate medical search terms for their personal queries. Our system is valuable for patients whose knowledge of medic...

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Pubblicato in:	IEEE Transactions on information technology in biomedicine 5, 4 (2001).
Autore principale:	Leroy, G.
Natura:	Articolo
Lingua:	English
Soggetti:	Arizona Noun Phraser. Metathesaurus. Semantic Net. Unified Medical Language System. WordNet. Computer generated Concept Space. Deep semantic parsing algorithm. Human-created ontologies. Medical experts. Medical search terms. Medical terminology needs. Medical vocabularies. Natural language processing tool. Online medical information source access. Ontology-enhanced Medical Concept Mapper. Patients. Personal queries. Semantically related concepts. Synonyms.