We propose the application of a novel sub-ontology extraction methodology for achieving
interoperability and improving the semantic validity of information retrieval in the medical …

A large amount of biomedical and genomic data are currently available on the Internet.
However, data are distributed into heterogeneous biological information sources, with little …

Background Because of the increasing number of electronic resources, designing efficient
tools to retrieve and exploit them is a major challenge. Some improvements have been …

The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) contains two separate but interconnected
knowledge structures, the Semantic Network (upper level) and the Metathesaurus (lower …

Background: HealthCyberMap (http://healthcybermap. semanticweb. org/) aims at mapping
Internet health information resources in novel ways for enhanced retrieval and navigation …

An information brokerage environment for effective information structuring, indexing, and
retrieval in the health-care administration sector is presented. The system is based on …

The eagle-i project has been developing a semantic search portal for biomedical research
resources. A unique feature of eagle-i is that the data collection and search tools are …

Ontologies have proven to be useful in the area of Information Retrieval and the biomedical
informatics community has acknowledged, in recent years, their utility. However, building …

The Semantic Web can be conceived as an extension of the current Web where information
is given well-defined meaning. In this scenario ontologies are crucial since they provide …

Abstract HealthCyberMap (http://healthcybermap. semanticweb. org) is a Semantic Web
project that aims at mapping selected parts of health information resources in cyberspace in …