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Zhang L, Halper M, Perl Y, Geller J, Cimino JJ. Relationship structures and semantic type assignments of the UMLS Enriched Semantic Network. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2005 Nov-Dec;12(6):657-66. Epub 2005 Jul 27. Abstract Zhang L, Perl Y, Halper M, Geller J, Cimino JJ. An enriched unified medical language system semantic network with a multiple subsumption hierarchy . J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2004 May-Jun;11(3):195-206. Epub 2004 Feb 5. Abstract Perl Y, Geller J. Research on structural issues of the UMLS--past, present, and future. J Biomed Inform. 2003 Dec;36(6):409-13. Abstract James Geller, Huanying Gu, and Michael Halper. Semantic refinement and error correction in large terminological knowledge bases, Data & Knowledge Engineering, 45(1), 2003, pp. 1-32. Abstract H. Gu, Y. Perl,  J. Geller, M. Halper, L. Liu and J.J. Cimino, Representing the UMLS as an OODB: Modelling Issues and Advantages. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 7(1), January 2000, pp.66-80 Abstract Li Zhang, Yehoshua Perl, Michael Halper, James Geller, James J. Cimino. Enriching the Structure of the UMLS Semantic Network . In the proceding of the 2002 AMIA Conference Abstract H.Gu , Y. Perl , J. Geller , M. Halper , L. Liu, and J. J.Cimino.  Modeling the UMLS using an OODB .  In N. M. Lorenzi, editor, Proceedings of the 1999 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium , pages 82-86, Washington, DC, November1999. Abstract Li-min Liu, James Geller and Yehoshua Perl, Enhancing OODB semantics to support browsing in an OODB vocabulary representation, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience , 15(9), August 2003, pp. 845--869. Abstract Li-Min Liu, Michael Halper, James Geller and Yehoshua Perl, Using OODB Modeling to Partition a Vocabulary into Structurally and Semantically Uniform Concept Groups , Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, in press, 2001. Abstract H. Gu, Y. Perl,  M. Halper, J. Geller, F. Kuo and J.J. Cimino, Partitioning an Object-Oriented Terminology Schema , Methods in Medical Informatics , 40, pp. 204­212, (2001) Abstract H.Gu, M. Halper, J. Geller and Y. Perl,  Benefits of an Object-oriented Database representation for Controlled Medical Terminologies. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 6(4), 283-303, July 1999. Abstract L. Liu, M. Halper, J. Geller and Y.Perl. Controlled Vocabularies in OODBs: Modeling issues and implementation. Distributed and Parallel Databases, 7(1), 37-65, January 1999. Abstract H. Gu , J. Geller ,  L. Liu, and M. Halper . Using a similarity measurement to partition a vocabulary of medical concepts.  In T. Bench-Capon, G. Soda, and A. M. Tjoa, editors, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications : DEXA'99, Florence, Italy, August 1999.  Published as: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1677, Springer-Verlag, New York, pages 712-723. Abstract L. Liu, M. Halper , H.Gu , J. Geller , and Y. Perl . Modeling a vocabulary in an object-oriented database. In K. Barker and M. T. Ozsu, editors, CIKM-96, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pages 179-188, Rockville, MD, November 1996. Abstract M. Halper , H.Gu , J. J. Cimino, J. Geller , and Y. Perl . Comprehending the structure of a medical vocabulary using object-oriented database modeling. OOPSLA'96 Workshop on Object-Oriented Technology for Health Care and Medical Information Systems, San Jose, CA, October 1996. Position Paper. Abstract There are 14 papers in this category.