Access to Biomedical Information: The Unified Medical Language System

Access to Biomedical Information: The Unified Medical Language System

Describes the development of a Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) by the National Library of Medicine that will retrieve and integrate information from a variety of information resources. Highlights include the metathesaurus; the UMLS semantic network; semantic locality; information sources map;...

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Veröffentlicht in:Library trends 1993-07, Vol.42 (1), p.127-151
1. Verfasser: Squires, Steven J
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Access to Information
Biomedicine
Controlled vocabulary
Evaluation Methods
Futures (of Society)
Health care
Health Sciences Information
Information Mapping
Information Retrieval
Information Sources
Library science
Medical language
Medical Vocabulary
Medicine
National Library of Medicine MD
Program Descriptions
Semantics
Subject indexing
Terminology
Thesauri
Unified Medical language system
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Zusammenfassung:Describes the development of a Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) by the National Library of Medicine that will retrieve and integrate information from a variety of information resources. Highlights include the metathesaurus; the UMLS semantic network; semantic locality; information sources map; evaluation of the metathesaurus; future possibilities; and projects using the UMLS. (Contains 62 references.) (LRW)
ISSN:0024-2594
1559-0682