Bodenreider O and McCray AT. From French vocabulary to the Unified Medical Language System: A preliminary study. In: Cesnik B, Safran C, and Degoulet P, eds, Proceedings of the 9 th World Congress on Medical Informatics, Seoul. 1998. This volume.  Home/Search   Document Details and Download   Summary   Related Articles

....lexicon and a source terminology and produces concept descriptions,which is different from our goal. The development of the UMLS, in particular its Specialist Lexicon, has drawn on lexical manipulations of existing terminologies [11] The construction of a French Specialist lexicon is under way [16]. Material We chose to base our study on a part of the French version of the Snomed Microglossary for Pathology. Our rationale for this choice was the following. A semantic lexicon must cater for the different semantic categories found in medical texts. Therefore, a multiaxial system such as the ....

....manual correction. For instance, a larger use of morphological information [18,19] could help us give semantic features to a larger number of words. A large part of the method should be applicable to other thesauri, such as the MeSH or the ICD, with the qualifications stated earlier (see also [16] about the French MeSH) Merging the resulting lexicons should however be done with caution, since the semantic features obtained from the different vocabularies are not directly comparable this is the main issue in projects such as the UMLS and its semantic network. A difficult problem was ....

Bodenreider O and McCray AT. From French vocabulary to the Unified Medical Language System: A preliminary study. In: Cesnik B, Safran C, and Degoulet P, eds, Proceedings of the 9 th World Congress on Medical Informatics, Seoul. 1998. This volume.

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