Using lexical and logical methods for the alignment of medical terminologies

  • Authors:
  • Michel Klein;Zharko Aleksovski

  • Affiliations:
  • department of Artificial Intelligence, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam;department of Artificial Intelligence, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  • Venue:
  • AIME'05 Proceedings of the 10th conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Standardized medical terminologies are often used for the registration of patient data. In several situations there is a need to align these terminologies to other terminologies. Even when the terminologies cover the same domain, this is often a non-trivial task. The task is even more complicated when the terminology does not contain much structure. In this paper we describe the initial results of a procedure for mapping a terminology with little or no structure to a structure-rich terminology. This procedure uses the knowledge of the structure-rich terminology and a method for semantic explicitation of concept descriptions. The first results shows that, when compared to approaches based on syntactic analysis only, the recall can be greatly improved without sacrificing much of the precision.