title: Computer-assisted dynamic integration of multiple medical thesauruses.
abstract: We have previously described a user-interactive rule-based computer program (Dyna-SaurI) designed for dynamic thesaurus integration, and demonstrated its efficacy on integrating dermatological subsets of the MeSH and SNOMED thesauruses. In the present study, we have refined our rules for merging and mapping multiple thesauruses and tested these rules. We then applied them with a set of optimized parameters to the integration of a third thesaurus, a subset of the International Coding Index for Dermatology, with the Integrated MeSH-SNOMED thesaurus. The parameter changes resulted in improved ranking of more specific and conceptually closer terms.
authors.affiliation: National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD 20894.
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Sneiderman
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Bicknell
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D016208:Databases, Factual; D003663:Decision Trees; D003880:Dermatology; D005103:Expert Systems; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D008523:MEDLARS; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D012984:Software; D013358:Subject Headings; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014584:User-Computer Interface