Supekar Kaustubh, Chute Christopher G, Solbrig Harold
Section on Medical Informatics, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA, USA.
AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2005;2005:719-23.
Medical Terminologies play a vital role in clinical data capture, reporting, information integration, indexing and retrieval. The Web Ontology language (OWL) provides an opportunity for the medical community to leverage the capabilities of OWL semantics and tools to build formal, sound and consistent medical terminologies, and to provide a standard web accessible medium for inter-operability,access and reuse. One of the tasks facing the medical community today is to represent the extensive terminology content that already exists into this new medium. This paper addresses one aspect of this challenge - how to incorporate multilingual, structured lexical information such as definitions, synonyms, usage notes, etc. into the OWL ontology model in a standardized, consistent and useful fashion.
医学术语在临床数据采集、报告、信息整合、索引和检索中起着至关重要的作用。网络本体语言（OWL）为医学界提供了一个机会，利用OWL语义和工具的功能来构建正式、合理且一致的医学术语，并提供一个标准的可通过网络访问的媒介，以实现互操作性、访问和重用。当今医学界面临的任务之一是将已有的大量术语内容呈现到这个新媒介中。本文探讨了这一挑战的一个方面——如何以标准化、一致且有用的方式将多语言、结构化的词汇信息（如定义、同义词、用法说明等）纳入OWL本体模型。
