Enriching the structure of the UMLS semantic network

The Unified Medical Language System's (UMLS's) Semantic Network (SN)---consisting of a network of semantic types---has a two-tree structure, where each semantic type has at most one parent semantic type. This arrangement is restrictive because some semantic types are, by their definition,...

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Veröffentlicht in:Proceedings. AMIA Symposium. - 1998. - (2002) vom: 10., Seite 939-43
1. Verfasser: Zhang, Li (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Perl, Yehoshua, Halper, Michael H, Geller, James, Cimino, James J
Format: Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2002
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Schlagworte:Journal Article Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
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