The principles of dependability terminology standardization

Standardization of Terminology in Laboratory Medicine II

Standardization of medical terminology is essential in data transmission between health care institutes and in maximizing the benefits of information technology. The purpose of this study was to standardize medical terms for laboratory observations. During the second year of the study, a standard database of concept names for laboratory terms that covered those used in tertiary health care inst...

Standardization of terminology in nocturia: commentary on the ICS report.

Over the past 3 years a sub-committee of the Standardization Committee of the ICS has discussed a range of issues related to nocturia. These discussions resulted in the report which was published elsewhere [1], and is reproduced in this supplement (page 11–15). The report provides definitions and recommendations that aim to improve the diagnosis and treatment of nocturia; this paper is a brief ...

Standardization and Language Planning of Terminology: the Norwegian Experience

The Norwegian language community is characterized by a considerable public interest in linguistic issues. Standardization of the written language has been an issue of controverse during more than a century, and in the Post-War period, the growing influence from Anglo-American culture has been of concern to the public opinion. Lexical elaboration of the national language is, consequently, consid...

Green Chemistry: Terminology and Principles

Evaluation of Terminology Extractors: Principles and Experiments

We claim that the evaluation of terminology extraction systems cannot rely entirely on the comparison of their results with a reference list, as the very existence of such a list made up independently of any application is highly questionable and as these systems do not yield only actual terms but potential (or candidate) terms. We propose instead to align their results on various corpora, so a...