Catching Liars: Why it can be so Hard

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Clinical terminology: why is it so hard?

Despite years of work, no re-usable clinical terminology has yet been demonstrated in widespread use. This paper puts forward ten reasons why developing such terminologies is hard. All stem from underestimating the change entailed in using terminology in software for 'patient centred' systems rather than for its traditional functions of statistical and financial reporting. Firstly, the increase...

Catching Liars.

While trying to think of an interesting way to introduce this major review of the field of lie detection, I did what lots of people do these days. I typed ‘‘catching liars’’ into the Google search bar and up came 305,000 results in .17 seconds. The first page was ‘‘10 ways to catch a liar’’ from WebMD. The essay featured J.J. Newberry, a trained federal agent purported to be skilled at detectin...

Why Is It So Hard to Define Software Architecture?

In recent years, software engineering researchers have elevated the study of software architecture to the level of a major area of study. A review of the published literature however, shows quite clearly that a unified view of software architecture has not been forth-coming. This paper contends that the existence of a "software architecture level of design" is based on the implicit assumption t...

A . L . Rector Clinical Terminology : Why Is it so Hard ?

For at least the last decade, problems of standardising medical language and terminology have been a major concern of Medical Informatics. Sittig placed achieving a common ‘controlled vocabulary’ at the top of his list of ‘grand challenges’ for medical informatics [1]. Major efforts have been mounted by the United States National Library of Medicine in its UMLS project, the UK National Health S...