ontology
Knowledge Organization Requires Standards
There is much automation in the medical world, both in treatment and billing. One of those that were hardest for physicians to accept was clinical pathways. A clinical pathway is a common medical treatment for a disease and care developed by one of the most appropriate care plans. These are used as management models in an effort to improve health care quality and to control medical costs. Standardized electronic clinical pathways use ontologies as shared conceptual models or knowledge organization.
Read MoreImproving Content and Classifications
Wielding SAS Text Analytics helps to reduce manual tagging, improves search results and supports ad revenue generation. This improved digital content performance is achieved by indexing, tagging and classifying data so that the ultimate in findability is achieved.
Read MoreRemedyMD Releases New Databases
RemedyMD plans to launch the Mosaic Lymphoma and Mosiac Leukemia registries at the upcoming American Society of Hematology annual meeting and exposition December 10-13 in San Diego, California.
Read MoreSemantic Search in Ontologies
One of the important components of many bioinformatic algorithms are semantic similarity searches in ontologies. There are, unfortunately, no algorithms for computing the exact distribution of semantic similarity scores.
Read MoreDepartment of Defense to the Rescue
Though semantic technology has become much more common in and out of the IT world, it is still ones of those terms that can cause you to lose your audience very quickly. The Defense Department thought so too, so they created an explanation of semantic technology using a brief video to address ontologies, natural language processing, etc. Did I lose you again? Just watch this.
Read MoreSentiment Analysis Symposium is Next Week
Adam Pease of Rearden Commerce will present an overview of ontology as it relates to sentiment analysis and content extraction at the Sentiment Analysis Symposium.
Read MoreSuper Database Based on Ontology
Researchers at the RIKEN BioResource Center are developing a system that will be able to bring together all of the information saved in databases around the world to be accessible from a single terminal.
Read MoreASIST in the Big Easy
The ASIST meeting was held in the delightful city of New Orleans this fall. The format, as well as the dates for the meeting was quite different this year and I found it refreshing. This is usually a heavily academic meeting and I go to keep my ears open to the research and trends that the Information Science and Library Schools are talking about. Every now and then there is a nugget I can use to enhance our products and services.
Read MoreNew Patent for Ontology
IBM has received a federal patent for “ontology-based network search engine.” Four co-inventors were named.
Read MoreIBM Receives Patent for Ontology Generation
International Business Machines (IBM) was awarded a patent for method and system for generating an ontology. The co-inventors are Rama Kalyani Akkiraju, San Jose, Calif., Richard T. Goodwin, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., Hui Guo, East Elmhurst, N.Y., and Anca-Andreea Ivan, San Jose, Calif.
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