{"title":"Estimating and Analysing Coordination in Medical Terminologies","authors":"Cornelia Hedeler, B. Parsia, S. Brandt","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2014.81","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Medical vocabulary is complex, and convoluted not least because of large numbers of compound terms. Formalized medical terminologies such as SNOMED-CT and ICD-10 take one of two strategies when representing medical language: so-called pre-coordination where valid compound terms are included explicitly and post-coordination where the terminology consists of a basis and a generative function from which the compound terms may be derived. However, these notions are not used with particular precision. Here we provide a formalization of the notion of coordination, a technique for estimating the degree of coordination in a given system, and an examination, based on our technique, of the coordination level of a number of terminologies.","PeriodicalId":398710,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2014-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2014 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2014.81","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Medical vocabulary is complex, and convoluted not least because of large numbers of compound terms. Formalized medical terminologies such as SNOMED-CT and ICD-10 take one of two strategies when representing medical language: so-called pre-coordination where valid compound terms are included explicitly and post-coordination where the terminology consists of a basis and a generative function from which the compound terms may be derived. However, these notions are not used with particular precision. Here we provide a formalization of the notion of coordination, a technique for estimating the degree of coordination in a given system, and an examination, based on our technique, of the coordination level of a number of terminologies.