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. 1998:845–849.

Validating clinical terminology structures: integration and cross-validation of Read Thesaurus and GALEN.

J E Rogers 1, C Price 1, A L Rector 1, W D Solomon 1, N Smejko 1
PMCID: PMC2232201  PMID: 9929338

Abstract

A European pre-standard and an intermediate representation facilitated exchange of two independently authored compositional knowledge bases: one formal and automatically classified, the other manually classified. The exchange highlights different strengths and weaknesses in each approach, and offers a mechanism for partial, mutual quality assurance.

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