Aligning Biomedical Terminologies in French: Towards Semantic Interoperability in Medical Applications

Role of Vocabularies for Semantic Interoperability in Enabling the Linked Open Data Publishing

“…In bioinformatics domain [41], controlled vocabulary is used in ingrating molecular biological data for resolving different terms of the same thing and accessing data without know the structure and technical issues. In medical domain [39], different ontology alignment through controlled vocabularies is ued in semantic ingration of medica data. In geology and mining [39], controlled vocabulary is used for semantic interoperability of geodata from mining projects.…”

EMBnet.journal 18 Suppl. B

“…The most known repository is the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) (Lindberg et al, 1993). Several works were based on the UMLS to align terminologies in French (Merabti et al, 2012) Thus, another solution is to find correspondences between these terminologies in French and in English using automatic methods. In (Merabti et al, 2012) we have proposed a lexical method to map biomedical terminologies either included or not into the UMLS.…”

“…Several works were based on the UMLS to align terminologies in French (Merabti et al, 2012) Thus, another solution is to find correspondences between these terminologies in French and in English using automatic methods. In (Merabti et al, 2012) we have proposed a lexical method to map biomedical terminologies either included or not into the UMLS. Nevertheless, these methods remain very dependent on the terminologies languages since they used NLP tools such as stemming or normalization.…”

“…It is based on the combination of several string metrics and it is neither based on the UMLS, nor language dependent. Mixed with lexical or conceptual approaches developed in previous studies (Merabti et al, 2012), it could improve the number of correspondences between terminologies with a high precision. Semantic methods are also an envisaged issue to complete this study.…”

Role of Vocabulary for Semantic Interoperability in Enabling the Linked Open Data Publishing

“…In medical domain [39], different ontology alignment through controlled vocabularies is ued in semantic ingration of medica data. In geology and mining [39], controlled vocabulary is used for semantic interoperability of geodata from mining projects. For this purpose, concepts and their relationships are proposed in knowledge domain of mineral exploration for mining projects.…”