Concept Mapping or Indexing of (Biomedical) Text

Problem

Concepts are often used to formalize knowledge. Especially in the medicine a large amount of systems exist that can be used to cover a specific area of knowledge. Examples are the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), SNOMED CT, or the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) that can represent and link a large amount of medical terminology systems.

In order to automatically process natural language text such terminology systems are often used to unify particular terms or phrases and to better understand them. This assignment of concepts to text phrases is called "concept mapping" or "concept indexing". A number of tools exist that were developed for this task.

Aim

  • Investigation of existing concept mapping and indexing tools for the biomedical area
  • Description and comparison of the tools

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Further information

Topics
medical terminology systems, UMLS, NLP
Area
Information Extraction (IE) and Transformation
English
Scope
SE
BA
Assigned as
Bachelor thesis/Bakkalaureatsarbeit
Student(s)

Edita Rados

Status
closed