The Unified Medical Language System: Toward a collaborative approach for solving terminologic problems
The Unified Medical Language System: Toward a collaborative approach for solving terminologic problems
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DOI：
10.1136/jamia.1998.0050012
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发表时间：
1998-01-01
影响因子：
6.4
通讯作者：
Shortliffe, EH
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作者：
Campbell, KE;Oliver, DE;Shortliffe, EH
统一医学语言系统（UMLS）采用的方法集成了不同的术语系统，允许构建电子同义词库（元同义词库），避免对源术语的内容、结构或语义施加任何限制。因此，UMLS 通过在不同上下文或用于不同目的的等效实体之间提供适当的链接，充当统一范例。因此，它提供了一种工具，通过该工具，可能的正交语义模型可以在单个框架内共存。该框架为生物医学术语的协作演化提供了一个模型，并允许 UMLS 与其源术语系统之间建立协同关系。
The approach taken by the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), in which disparate terminology systems are integrated, has allowed construction of an electronic thesaurus (the Metathesaurus) that avoids imposing any restrictions upon the content, structure, or semantics of the source terminologies. As such, the UMLS has served as a unifying paradigm by providing appropriate Links among equivalent entities that are used in different contexts or for different purposes. It accordingly provides a vehicle through which possibly orthogonal semantic models can co-exist within a single framework. This framework provides a model for the collaborative evolution of biomedical terminology and allows a synergistic relationship between the UMLS and its source terminology systems.