Schulz Stefan, Balkanyi Laszlo, Cornet Ronald, Bodenreider Olivier
Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden.
Healthc Inform Res. 2013 Dec;19(4):235-42. doi: 10.4258/hir.2013.19.4.235. Epub 2013 Dec 31.
This work aims at uncovering challenges in biomedical knowledge representation research by providing an understanding of what was historically called "medical concept representation" and used as the name for a working group of the International Medical Informatics Association.
Bibliometrics, text mining, and a social media survey compare the research done in this area between two periods, before and after 2000.
Both the opinion of socially active groups of researchers and the interpretation of bibliometric data since 1988 suggest that the focus of research has moved from "medical concept representation" to "medical ontologies".
It remains debatable whether the observed change amounts to a paradigm shift or whether it simply reflects changes in naming, following the natural evolution of ontology research and engineering activities in the 1990s. The availability of powerful tools to handle ontologies devoted to certain areas of biomedicine has not resulted in a large-scale breakthrough beyond advances in basic research.
这项工作旨在通过理解历史上所谓的“医学概念表示”（曾被用作国际医学信息学协会一个工作组的名称）来揭示生物医学知识表示研究中的挑战。
文献计量学、文本挖掘和社交媒体调查比较了2000年前后两个时期该领域的研究情况。
自1988年以来，活跃的研究人员群体的观点以及文献计量数据的解读均表明，研究重点已从“医学概念表示”转向“医学本体”。
观察到的这种变化究竟是范式转变，还是仅仅反映了随着20世纪90年代本体研究与工程活动的自然发展而出现的命名变化，仍存在争议。用于处理特定生物医学领域本体的强大工具的出现，除了在基础研究方面取得进展外，并未带来大规模的突破。
