DEVELOP A SCIENTIFIC SUMMARY LANGUAGE - MEDLISH

目前的科学书目数据库（例如，MEDLINE）现在 在文学活动中起着非常重要的作用。 他们是 它很重要，而且被广泛使用。 然而，信息 在标题、摘要和MeSH索引字段中表示， 这些数据库是相当混乱和粗略相比， 许多其他类型的数据库。 因为这些 缺陷，计算机化文献检索不精确， 仅仅基于“关键字”的存在来检索记录， 而不是通过精确的“概念匹配”条件，例如 对于关系数据库和其他有序数据 结构. 在这个SBIR计划中，我们建议制作一个小的 数据库包含的信息是在普通 摘要，而是用一种新的“科学语言”来表达它。 我们（ISG）一直在开发。 与英语不同， MEDLISH在数据库中强制执行顺序、科学精确性和逻辑性。 条目 在第一阶段结束时，我们将完成 设计并制作了一个示例数据库，并完成了实现 布局 在第二阶段，我们将生产适销对路的产品。 我们期望用MEDLISH表示的数据库将支持 比目前的书目查询更精确的查询 数据库，最终包括自然英语查询。

Current scientific bibliographic databases (e.g., MEDLINE) now play a very central role in literature activities. They are important and they are widely used. However, the information expressed in the TITLE, ABSTRACT and MeSH INDEX fields in these databases is quite chaotic and sketchy compared with the structure of many other kinds of databases. Because of these deficiencies, computerized literature searches are imprecise and merely retrieve records based on the presence of "keywords," rather than via a precise "match on concept" condition, such as is possible with relational databases and other orderly data structures. In this SBIR program we propose to make a small database containing the kind of information that is in ordinary abstracts, but to express it in a new "scientific language" (MEDLISH), that we (ISG) have been developing. Unlike English, MEDLISH enforces order, scientific precision and logic on the entries. At the conclusion of Phase I we will have completed the design, made a sample database, and finished the implementation plans. In Phase II we then would make the marketable product. We expect that a data base expressed in MEDLISH will support much more precise queries than do current bibliographic databases, including, eventually, queries in natural English.