Effectiveness of UMLS semantic network as a seed ontology for medical domain ontology building.

• Main Author: Neoh, Hock Leng.
• Other Authors: Na, Jin Cheon
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Library and information science::Libraries::Information retrieval and analysis
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/1629
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The goals of building this ontology are to determine the effectiveness of UMLS in predicting the extracted concept relationships and consequently enrich the seed ontology based on the extracted concept and semantic relationships. The UMLS semantic network is an extensive knowledge source that is use...