Abstraction networks for terminologies: Supporting management of "big knowledge".
Journal:
Artificial intelligence in medicine
Published Date:
Apr 2, 2015
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Terminologies and terminological systems have assumed important roles in many medical information processing environments, giving rise to the "big knowledge" challenge when terminological content comprises tens of thousands to millions of concepts arranged in a tangled web of relationships. Use and maintenance of knowledge structures on that scale can be daunting. The notion of abstraction network is presented as a means of facilitating the usability, comprehensibility, visualization, and quality assurance of terminologies.