As the UMLS integrates multiple source vocabularies, the integration process requires that certain adaptation be applied to the source. Our interest is in examining the relationship between the UMLS representation of a source vocabulary and the source vocabulary itself. We investigated the integration of the Minimal Standard Terminology (MST) into the UMLS in order to examine how close its UMLS...

We compared the uses and definitions of habitat-related terms in 50 articles from 1980 to 1994 to operational definitions we derived from the literature. Only 9 (18%) of the articles we reviewed defined and used habitat-related terms consistently and according to our definitions of the terms. Forty-seven articles used the term "habitat;" however, it was only defined and used consistent with our...

This paper reports on extensions of the Description Logics non-standard inference system Sonic. The recent contributions to the system are two-fold. Firstly, Sonic is extended by two new of non-standard inferences, namely, implementations of the good common subsumer w.r.t. a background terminology and a heuristics for computing a minimal rewriting. Secondly, Sonic is available as a plugin for t...

Measurement procedures are not error-free. Potential users of a measurement procedure need to know the expected magnitude error in order justify its use, particular health care settings. Gold standard providing exact measurements for comparisons often lacking. Consequently, scientific investigations based on using replicates. However, standardized terminology (and partially also methodology) su...

Since software integration research has yielded a variety of different concepts, we survey and discuss EAI (Enterprise Application Integration terminology, in the domain of the quality properties, known as Quality of Services (QoS) offered by the EAI middleware. The main goal of this work is to establish a correspondence or mapping between the ISO standard definitions and the terminology used i...