Toward Constructing the National Cancer Institute Thesaurus Derived WordNet (ncitWN)

We describe preliminary work in the creation of the first specialized vocabulary to be integrated into the Open Multilingual Wordnet (OMW). The NCIt Derived WordNet (ncitWN) is based on the National Cancer Institute Thesaurus (NCIt), a controlled biomedical terminology that includes formal class res...

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Main Authors: Hicks, Amanda, Seppälä, Selja, Bond, Francis
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88442
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44911
http://compling.hss.ntu.edu.sg/events/2018-gwc/pdfs/GWC2018_paper_17.pdf
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:We describe preliminary work in the creation of the first specialized vocabulary to be integrated into the Open Multilingual Wordnet (OMW). The NCIt Derived WordNet (ncitWN) is based on the National Cancer Institute Thesaurus (NCIt), a controlled biomedical terminology that includes formal class restrictions and English definitions developed by groups of clinicians and terminologists. The ncitWN is created by converting the NCIt to the WordNet Lexical Markup Framework and adding semantic types. We report the development of a prototype ncitWN and first steps towards integrating it into the OMW.