Integrating SNOMED CT into the UMLS: An Exploration of Different Views of Synonymy and Quality of Editing

AUTOR(ES)

Fung, Kin Wah

FONTE

American Medical Informatics Association

RESUMO

Objective: The integration of SNOMED CT into the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) involved the alignment of two views of synonymy that were different because the two vocabulary systems have different intended purposes and editing principles. The UMLS is organized according to one view of synonymy, but its structure also represents all the individual views of synonymy present in its source vocabularies. Despite progress in knowledge-based automation of development and maintenance of vocabularies, manual curation is still the main method of determining synonymy. The aim of this study was to investigate the quality of human judgment of synonymy.

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