Objective The study sought to describe the literature related to the development of methods
for auditing the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), with particular attention to …

Background Assessment of drug and vaccine effects by combining information from different
healthcare databases in the European Union requires extensive efforts in the harmonization …

One promise of current information retrieval systems is the capability to identify risk groups
for certain diseases and pathologies based on the automatic analysis of vast amounts of …

Objective To develop a method to exploit the UMLS Metathesaurus for extracting and
categorizing concepts found in clinical text representing signs and symptoms to anatomically …

We summarize some applications of Answer Set Programming (ASP) in phylogenetics
systematics, focusing on the challenges, how they are handled using computational …

Since there is a great confusion between the ontologies and other semantic resources, the
purpose of this special issue is to address the question on “Ontologies and terminologies …

Iconic languages can represent concepts by the combination of graphical components (such
as colors or pictograms). There are numerous examples, from traffic signs to computer user …

Abstract Background Visualization of Concepts in Medicine (VCM) is a compositional iconic
language that aims to ease information retrieval in Electronic Health Records (EHR), clinical …

We introduce a new method to find semantic inconsistencies (ie, concepts with erroneous
synonymity) in the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). The idea is to identify the …

La recuperación de documentos médicos a través del procesamiento del lenguaje natural,
es lo suficientemente importante y complejo como para dedicarle una atención especial a …