From data to knowledge through concept-oriented terminologies: experience with the Medical Entities Dictionary.
Knowledge representation involves enumeration of conceptual symbols and arrangement of these symbols into some meaningful structure. Medical knowledge representation has traditionally focused more on the structure than the symbols. Several significant efforts are under way, at local, national, and international levels, to address the representation of the symbols though the creation of high-quality terminologies that are themselves knowledge based. This paper reviews these efforts, including the Medical Entities Dictionary (MED) [...]
Author(s): Cimino, J J
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2000.0070288