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: The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how the transformation of a medical vocabulary based on a Semantic Network (SN) model into a vocabulary based on an Object-Oriented Database (OODB) model helps in the maintenance of the vocabulary. We describe an OODB schema which captures the overall structure of the vocabulary in a compact form and uncovers some errors and inconsistencies made in the vocabulary's original modeling.