Document Type
Thesis
Date of Award
Fall 10-31-1997
Degree Name
Master of Science in Computer Science - (M.S.)
Department
Computer and Information Science
First Advisor
Yehoshua Perl
Second Advisor
James Geller
Third Advisor
Michael Halper
Abstract
Controlled vocabularies are becoming popular for knowledge representation and querying. They are particularly helpful in the medical field since they can unify disparate terminologies and provide information in a compact, comprehensible manner. In this thesis, we present a mechanism to create OODB controlled medical vocabularies from flat-file format. We also describe a tool by which a user can interactively create, edit and browse the vocabulary. For better understanding of the structure of the vocabulary we designed our interface as a graphical editor and browser. The user of this interface will typically be a medical expert who either wants to add new concepts to the vocabulary or create a new vocabulary from scratch. We first describe our approach for creating the vocabulary from an existing flat-file format by batch processing. We then present the software architecture and design of an interactive vocabulary creator (IVC).
Recommended Citation
Arif, Muhammad, "Interactive and batch creation of OODB medical vocabularies" (1997). Theses. 1005.
https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/theses/1005
