Burgun A, Botti G, Bodenreider O, Delamarre D, Levêque J M, Lukacs B, Mayeux D, Bremond M, Kohler F, Fieschi M, Le Beux P
Laboratoire d'Informatique Médicale, C.H.U., Le Guilloux, Rennes, France.
Int J Biomed Comput. 1996 Dec;43(3):189-202. doi: 10.1016/s0020-7101(96)01206-8.
The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) contains and organizes a large number of terms from a variety of biomedical terminology systems. This study examines the relevance of the UMLS content and structures to the specific purpose of the conceptual representation of medical procedures. The MAOUSSC modelling is a compositional formalism with a description of elementary procedures in terms of elementary concept entities and combinations of such descriptions into more complex ones. The UMLS knowledge base is expected to provide semantically categorized medical concepts and interconcept relations. A method to reuse the UMLS has been developed. Quantitative and qualitative results are presented. Some difficulties in reusing the UMLS as a background knowledge are related to the preeminence of some terminology sources and to the instanciation of interconcept links. Other ones suggest that purpose-independence in categorization cannot be achieved.
统一医学语言系统（UMLS）包含并整理了来自各种生物医学术语系统的大量术语。本研究考察了UMLS的内容和结构与医疗程序概念表示这一特定目的的相关性。MAOUSSC建模是一种组合形式主义，它根据基本概念实体来描述基本程序，并将这些描述组合成更复杂的描述。预计UMLS知识库将提供语义分类的医学概念和概念间关系。已开发出一种重用UMLS的方法。给出了定量和定性结果。将UMLS作为背景知识进行重用时存在的一些困难与某些术语源的优势以及概念间链接的实例化有关。其他困难表明在分类中无法实现目的独立性。
