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This paper describes the construction of a synonym thesaurus or entry vocabulary for the SUNY Biomedical Communication Network, which will permit the user greater ease of access to the MeSH-indexed material without previously consulting a printed list of indexing terms. In order to discover the actual terminology used by a researcher, words were extracted from titles of articles appearing in Index Medicus, and compared with the subject heading under which they appeared. As well as strict synonyms, grammatical variants were also included. Work is continuing on relating other indexing vocabularies, such as Excerpta Medica and Current Medical Terminology, used in the biomedical world to MeSH terms.
本文描述了纽约州立大学(SUNY)生物医学通信网络同义词词典或词条词汇表的构建,这将使用户在无需事先查阅印刷索引词表的情况下,更轻松地获取医学主题词表(MeSH)索引的资料。为了发现研究人员实际使用的术语,从《医学索引》中出现的文章标题中提取词汇,并与这些词汇所出现的主题词进行比较。除了严格的同义词外,语法变体也包括在内。将其他生物医学领域使用的索引词汇,如《医学文摘》和《当代医学术语》,与医学主题词表术语相关联的工作仍在继续。