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. 2000:482–486.

Knowledge acquisition to qualify Unified Medical Language System interconceptual relationships.

F Le Duff 1, A Burgun 1, M Cleret 1, B Pouliquen 1, V Barac'h 1, P Le Beux 1
PMCID: PMC2244027  PMID: 11079930

Abstract

Adding automatically relations between concepts from a database to a knowledge base such as the Unified Medical Language System can be very useful to increase the consistency of the latter one. But the transfer of qualified relationships is more interesting. The most important interest of these new acquisitions is that the UMLS became more compliant and medically pertinent to be used in different medical applications. This paper describes the possibility to inherit automatically medical inter-conceptual relationships qualifiers from a disease description included into a database and to integrate them into the UMLS knowledge base. The paper focuses on the transmission of knowledge from a French medical database to an English one.

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