Ontology of Consumer Health Vocabulary: providing a formal and interoperable semantic resource for linking lay language and medical terminology

Muhammad Amith; Kirk Roberts; Cui Tao; Licong Cui; Hua Xu

doi:10.1109/bibm47256.2019.8983220

Ontology of Consumer Health Vocabulary: providing a formal and interoperable semantic resource for linking lay language and medical terminology

Proceedings (IEEE Int Conf Bioinformatics Biomed). 2019 Nov:2019:1177-1178. doi: 10.1109/bibm47256.2019.8983220. Epub 2020 Feb 6.

Authors

Muhammad Amith¹, Kirk Roberts², Cui Tao², Licong Cui², Hua Xu²

Affiliations

¹ School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Houston, TX, United States.
² School of Biomedical Informatics University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Houston, TX, United States.

Abstract

The Consumer Health Vocabulary has been an important contribution to the health informatics field since its introduction in 2006. Many studies have utilized the vocabulary for various scientific research to bridge the gap between consumers and health experts. Given the flat file format of the Consumer Health Vocabulary dataset, we developed a SKOS-based ontology of the dataset. As an ontology, this dataset can be semantically linked to other resources to provide consumer-level meaning. In addition with this artifact, we plan to further expand the terminology.

Keywords: Biomedical Informatics; Semantic Web; Taxonomy; Terminology.

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