ENGLISH

Terminology and Terminological Systems

By MACP , Peter L. Elkin M.D. , FACMI (auth.) , Peter L. Elkin (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag London
Year
2012
ISBN
978-1-4471-2815-1, 978-1-4471-2816-8
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4471-2816-8
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4963856 bytes)
Series
Health Informatics
Edition
1
Pages
221\239
Time added
2013-10-20 05:25:02
Health Informatics

Description

This book will provide readers with the essential information needed to understand knowledge representation with a focus on healthcare. The book will use health sector real world examples to delineate the principal issues and solutions for the field of data representation. The book will include a history of terminologies and in particular their use in healthcare. This book will cover the basis, authoring and use of reference terminologies including the formalisms needed to use them safely. The editor will exhaustively cover the field of concept-based indexing and will provide readers with an understanding of natural language processing and its application to health terminologies. The book will discuss terminology services and the architecture for terminological servers. This text will serve as the basis for a course or equally well as a reference text.

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