Towards Quality Measures for Evaluating Thesauri

Kless, Daniel; Milton, Simon K.

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“…The coordination level has previously been suggested as a quality measure for terminologies [16], e.g., it is easy to see the dramatic increase in precoordination between ICD-9 and ICD-10. Perhaps more surprising is the relatively high coordination factor for SNOMED-CT, although it is well known that while SNOMED-CT is geared toward post-coordination, it contains a substantial number of pre-coordinated terms [14].…”

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Estimating and Analysing Coordination in Medical Terminologies

Hedeler

Parsia

Brandt

2014

2014 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems

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Medical vocabulary is complex, and convoluted not least because of large numbers of compound terms. Formalized medical terminologies such as SNOMED-CT and ICD-10 take one of two strategies when representing medical language: socalled pre-coordination where valid compound terms are included explicitly and post-coordination where the terminology consists of a basis and a generative function from which the compound terms may be derived. However, these notions are not used with particular precision. Here we provide a formalization of the notion of coordination, a technique for estimating the degree of coordination in a given system, and an examination, based on our technique, of the coordination level of a number of terminologies.

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Section: Definition 31mentioning

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Estimating and Analysing Coordination in Medical Terminologies

Hedeler

Parsia

Brandt

2014

2014 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems

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“…With reference to the work of Klees & Milton [7], who defined general (intrinsic) quality criteria for thesauri, we discuss the relevance of structural SKOS attributes for the application scenarios defined above. Table 1 gives an overview of the different applications areas with respect to the requirements of the structural attributes created for the application types.…”

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“…Wang et al [12] have conducted an experiment on the precision and relevance of automatic artwork recommendations with respect to the underlying semantic properties. And recently Kless & Milton [7] have developed a measurement construct to evaluate the intrinsic quality of thesauri mainly based on the framework for information quality developed by Stvilia et al [11] and the measurements constructs defined by Soergel [9].…”

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“…Despite a long research tradition in thesaurus quality assurance little attention has so far been paid to the interaction between the structural specificities of a thesaurus and the quality of output with respect to differing application scenarios supported by the thesaurus. Although several initiatives exist that focus on thesaurus and metadata quality in terms of expressivity and structural soundness ( [7], [11] existing ISO standards like [1], [2] and basic thesaurus & organisation system literature i.e. [4]), these approaches do not take the envisioned application into account, thus being of limited relevance for applied thesaurus modelling.…”

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Exploring structural differences in thesauri for SKOS-based applications

Nagy¹,

Pellegrini²,

Mader

2011

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Semantic Systems

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This paper presents conceptual assumptions about the interaction between the structural specificities of a thesaurus and the quality of a thesaurus-based application output. So far hardly any literature exists that discusses thesaurus modelling requirements with respect to the following thesaurusspecific application areas: classifying, indexing, autocomplete, query expansion, recommendation and glossaries. By looking at these application areas the authors compare the structural attributes of SKOS and discuss their functional relevance. The authors conclude that taking these assumptions into account can significantly support application-oriented thesaurus modelling hence incrementally improving thesaurusbased applications in terms of modelling scope and effort. An empirical testing of these assumptions is subject to future work.

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“…In [8], Kless & Milton provide a list of measurements constructs for the intrinsic quality of thesauri, examining a thesaurus as an artifact itself, i.e. isolated from an application scenario.…”

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Quality Assurance in Collaboratively Created Web Vocabularies

Mader

2012

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. In recent years, controlled vocabularies have become available on the Web using SKOS 1 , i.e. they are linked to each other in order to be used in an interoperable way. Well-crafted controlled vocabularies are beneficial for, e.g., search and retrieval systems that provide functionalities like search term completion, query expansion or the ability for inter-domain queries. Some of these vocabularies are created collaboratively by experts, holding expertise in different domains. In order to support vocabulary contributors to create high quality vocabularies, we propose a method that semi-automatically ensures vocabulary quality in collaborative authoring processes. The proposed approach tackles this issue by (i) defining a set of criteria that serve as a metrics to measure vocabulary quality and (ii) introducing a method to continually assess and improve this quality. As a result of our approach, the developed vocabularies are expected to better fit the intentions of the contributors and are more useful for reuse and adoption on the Web of Data.

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Towards Quality Measures for Evaluating Thesauri

Cited by 16 publications

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Estimating and Analysing Coordination in Medical Terminologies

Estimating and Analysing Coordination in Medical Terminologies

Exploring structural differences in thesauri for SKOS-based applications

Quality Assurance in Collaboratively Created Web Vocabularies

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