A medical terminological system (TS) is essentially an ontology consisting of concepts, attributes and relationships pertaining to medical terms.
To translate the terminological content of SNOMED CT, we have defined a four phase algorithm that is based on Natural Language Processing NLPP) techniques and that is presented in [ 6].
The Relativity Example: Is Terminological Innovation a Good Idea?
To evade the terminological difficulties, the European authority for supervision of pharmaceutical research (EMEA, 2002) has suggested a nomenclature that seems to fit the needs of current research practice and is in line with the ambitions of different harmonising projects to optimise privacy.
Hence, using terminological resources such as Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and Unified Medical Language System UMLSS) Metathesaurus help boost the identification performance (17, 18).
Several terminological systems such as SNOMED (Systematized Nomenclature for Medicine) and MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) have, however, been mapped to the GO (Searls, 2005).
Hemicrania epileptica is not listed among the nosological or terminological recommendations of the ILAE Commission on Classification and Terminology [30].
Table 1 summarizes the quantitative results obtained from extracting the glossary of CTX terms using different terminological services provided by the UMLSKS Knowledge Server (ExactMatch, NormalizedString and Metamap; [ 26]).
Traditionally, the core of a Terminological Knowledge Representation System (TKRS) consists of a TBox or terminology, where concepts are introduced, and an ABox or world description, where facts about individuals are stated in terms of concept memberships.
Err.: Standard Error; T-Box: Terminological Box; Turtle: Terse RDF Triple Language; W3C: World Wide Web Consortium; XML: eXtensible Markup Language.
In the medical field, the largest terminological system is the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) (Bodenreider, 2004; UMLS, 2009) in which synonymous terms from different source vocabularies are clustered into concepts, each of which is categorized using a system of semantic types (STs) (McCray, 1995).
