The Unified Medical Language System (http://umlsks.nlm.nih.gov) is a repository of biomedical vocabularies developed by the US National Library of Medicine. The UMLS integrates over 2 million names for some 900,000 concepts from more than 60 families of biomedical vocabularies, as well as 12 million relations among these concepts. Vocabularies integrated in the UMLS Metathesaurus include the NC...

The Semantic Web would enable new ways of doing business on the Web that require development of advanced business document integration technologies performing intelligent document transformation. The documents use different vocabularies that consist of large hierarchies of terms. Accordingly, vocabulary mapping and transformation becomes an important task in the whole business document transfor...

In this paper we build on our methodology for combining and selecting alignment techniques for vocabularies, with two alignment case studies of large vocabularies in two languages. Firstly, we analyze the vocabularies and based on that analysis choose our alignment techniques. Secondly, we test our hypothesis based on earlier work that first generating alignments using simple lexical alignment ...

''Implementation of Nursing Vocabularies in Computer based Systems'' was the theme of an invita-tional conference held before the 1997 AMIA Spring Congress. The conference served as a summit to bring together vocabulary developers, industrial partners, sites implementing systems that include nursing vocabularies , researchers, policy-makers, and government representatives to discuss issues surr...