title: Extending SemRep to the Public Health Domain.
abstract: We describe the use of a domain-independent methodology to extend a natural language processing (NLP) application, SemRep (Rindflesch, Fiszman, & Libbus, 2005), based on the knowledge sources afforded by the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS®) (Humphreys, Lindberg, Schoolman, & Barnett, 1998) to support the area of health promotion within the public health domain. Public health professionals require good information about successful health promotion policies and programs that might be considered for application within their own communities. Our effort seeks to improve access to relevant information for the public health profession, to help those in the field remain an information-savvy workforce. NLP and semantic techniques hold promise to help public health professionals navigate the growing ocean of information by organizing and structuring this knowledge into a focused public health framework paired with a user-friendly visualization application as a way to summarize results of PubMed searches in this field of knowledge.
authors.affiliation: National Library of Medicine, NIH, Bethesda, MD.
authors.forename: Graciela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rosemblat
authors.affiliation: National Library of Medicine, NIH, Bethesda, MD.
authors.forename: Melissa P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Resnick
authors.affiliation: National Library of Medicine, NIH, Bethesda, MD.
authors.forename: Ione
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Auston
authors.affiliation: National Library of Medicine, NIH, Bethesda, MD.
authors.forename: Dongwook
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Shin
authors.affiliation: National Library of Medicine, NIH, Bethesda, MD.
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sneiderman
authors.affiliation: National Library of Medicine, NIH, Bethesda, MD.
authors.forename: Marcelo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fizsman
authors.affiliation: National Library of Medicine, NIH, Bethesda, MD.
authors.forename: Thomas C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Rindflesch
keywords: Health Promotion; Natural Language Processing; Public Health; Semantic Predications; Semi-Automated Ontology Development
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