Methodologically designing a hierarchically organized concept-based terminology database to improve access to biomedical documentation

  • Authors:
  • Antonio Vaquero;Fernando Sáenz;Francisco Alvarez;Manuel de Buenaga

  • Affiliations:
  • Facultad de Informática, Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Programación, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain;Facultad de Informática, Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Programación, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain;Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacán, Sinaloa, México;Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • OTM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: AWeSOMe, CAMS, COMINF, IS, KSinBIT, MIOS-CIAO, MONET - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Relational databases have been used to represent lexical knowledge since the days of machine-readable dictionaries However, although software engineering provides a methodological framework for the construction of databases, most developing efforts focus on content, implementation and time-saving issues, and forget about the software engineering aspects of database construction We have defined a methodology for the development of lexical resources that covers this and other aspects, by following a sound software engineering approach to formally represent knowledge Nonetheless, the conceptual model from which it departs has some major limitations that need to be overcome Based on a short analysis of common problems in existing lexical resources, we present an upgraded conceptual model as a first step towards the methodological development of a hierarchically organized concept-based terminology database, to improve the access to medical information as part of the SINAMED and ISIS projects.