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by Huanying (helen Gu, James Geller, Li-min Liu, Michael Halper
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Abstract. Controlled medical vocabularies have become increasingly important in a range of medical informatics applications. However, the extensive size of most vocabularies often makes it difficult for users to gain an understanding of their contents. In previous work, we have investigated the partitioning of a large semantic-network based medical vocabulary into smaller units, for the purpose of easier graphical display and comprehension. The partitioning process relied heavily on a domain expert. In this paper, we propose a structural method for automating the partitioning of a vocabulary. The structural method is based on a definition of the similarity of a pair consisting of a child concept and its parent concept in the semantic network. A distribution over these similarities for all pairs in the semantic network is then computed. Based on this distribution, the semantic network can be partitioned into more manageable pieces. The approach has been applied to the InterMED and a complex portion of the MED, two large medical vocabularies. 1
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