Research Papers: The research papers are organized by the source terminologies and research techniques.

Auditing

Yan Chen, Yehoshua Perl, James Geller, and James J. Cimino. Analysis of a Study of the Users, Uses and Future Agenda of the UMLS. To appear on Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2006 Dec. Abstract Yue Wang, Michael Halper, Hua Min, Yehoshua Perl, Yan Chen, Kent A. Spackman. Structural Methodologies for Auditing SNOMED. To Appear in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics. Abstract Min H, Perl Y, Chen Y, Halper M, Geller J, Wang Yue. Auditing as part of the Terminology Design Life Cycle. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2005 Nov-Dec. pp676-690 Abstract Gu H, Perl Y, Elhanan G, Min H, Zhang L, Peng Y. Auditing concept categorizations in the UMLS. Artif Intell Med. 2004 May;31(1):29-44. Abstract Cimino JJ, Min H, Perl Y. Consistency across the hierarchies of the UMLS Semantic Network and Metathesaurus . J Biomed Inform. 2003 Dec;36(6):450-61. 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 Yi Peng, Michael Halper. Auditing the UMLS For Redundant Classifications . In the proceding of the 2002 AMIA Conference, pp 612-616 Abstract Huanying (Helen) Hu, Hua Min, Yi Peng, Li Zhang, Yehoshua Perl. Using the Metaschema to Audit UMLS Classification Errors . In the proceding of the 2002 AMIA Conference, pp 310-314 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 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 There are 11 papers in this category.