Göbel G, Andreatta S, Masser J, Pfeiffer K P
Institute of Biostatistics and Documentation, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2001;84(Pt 1):333-7.
This paper introduces a user-friendly browser interface which integrates multilingual search and browsing functionalities within medical thesauri via the internet. The tool is being developed as part of the GIN Austria Patient Information System and is based on an adapted datamodel of the MeSH thesaurus. A prototype offers the possibility to build up queries and export lists of MeSH main headings collected during browsing the relevant MeSH trees. The thesaurus browser can be used both by patients and citizens to build queries based on a controlled vocabulary to match them with existing documents within GIN and by medical information managers to find out appropriate keywords for interactive tagging or indexing of medical contents. A key component of this tool is the flexible choice of different languages of the MeSH datasource as well as of the user interface. Both can be changed independently at any point during a session. Another central aspect is the use of the UMLS Metathesaurus in combination with localized Thesaurus versions due to existing international character set problems.
本文介绍了一种用户友好的浏览器界面，该界面通过互联网在医学叙词表中集成了多语言搜索和浏览功能。该工具作为奥地利GIN患者信息系统的一部分正在开发，并且基于医学主题词表（MeSH）的一种改编数据模型。一个原型提供了构建查询以及导出在浏览相关MeSH树时收集的MeSH主标题列表的可能性。叙词表浏览器可供患者和公民使用，以便基于受控词汇构建查询，使其与GIN中的现有文档相匹配；也可供医学信息管理人员使用，以找出用于医学内容交互式标记或索引的适当关键词。该工具的一个关键组件是灵活选择MeSH数据源以及用户界面的不同语言。在会话期间的任何时候，两者都可以独立更改。另一个核心方面是由于存在国际字符集问题，将统一医学语言系统（UMLS）元词表与本地化的叙词表版本结合使用。
