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Structural Auditing Methodologies For Controlled Terminologies, Hua Min
Structural Auditing Methodologies For Controlled Terminologies, Hua Min
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Several auditing methodologies for large controlled terminologies are developed. These are applied to the Unified Medical Language System XXXX and the National Cancer Institute Thesaurus (NCIT). Structural auditing methodologies are based on the structural aspects such as IS-A hierarchy relationships groups of concepts assigned to semantic types and groups of relationships defined for concepts. Structurally uniform groups of concepts tend to be semantically uniform. Structural auditing methodologies focus on concepts with unlikely or rare configuration. These concepts have a high likelihood for errors.
One of the methodologies is based on comparing hierarchical relationships between the META and SN, two major …