title: The project ARIANE: conceptual queries to information databases.
abstract: As information databases we consider all the collections of data records indexed by key-words, stored and delivered by computer systems. In previous research works we demonstrated the interest to design a conceptual model, in the conceptual graphs formalism, and to implement a computational model for information retrieval in large information databases. These models are based on the UMLS knowledge sources. This paper reminds briefly these models and describes tests done in querying a patients database and a bibliographical database.
authors.affiliation: CERTIM. Faculté Médecine, Marseille, France.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Joubert
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Robert
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Miton
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fieschi
mesh_terms: D016206:Databases, Bibliographic; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D007256:Information Systems; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D012660:Semantics; D017432:Unified Medical Language System; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled