Medical term matching approaches

Abstract

Information are provided in heterogeneous terms in several forms (document, database and ontology), it is necessary to integrate them to facilitate the information retrieval and knowledge discovery. Moreover, the semantic representation of term helps the computer to understand the meaning of information. Information of a specific domain can be presented in different terms, the matching between terms achieves the goal to represent an integrate information. One of the domains which need the integration between its terms is the medical domain. This paper presents a survey on the major term matching techniques in the medical domain.