@inproceedings{1cf8d82b8b354311a8ac69fb68ba4a8d,
title = "An evaluation of hybrid methods for matching biomedical terminologies: Mapping the gene ontology to the UMLS{\textregistered}",
abstract = "Integration of disparate biomedical terminologies is becoming increasingly important as links between biological science and clinical medicine grow. Mapping concepts in the Gene OntologyTM(GO) to the UMLS may help further this integration and allow for more efficient information exchange among researchers. Using a gold standard of GO term - UMLS concept mappings provided by the NCI, we examined the performance of various published and combined mapping techniques, in order to maximize precision and recall. We found that for the previously published techniques precision varied between (0.61-0.95), and recall varied from (0.65-0.90), whereas for the hybrid techniques, precision varied between (0.66-0.97), and recall from (0.59-0.93). Our study reveals the benefits of using mapping techniques that incorporate domain knowledge, and provides a basis for future approaches to mapping between distinct biomedical vocabularies.",
keywords = "Bioinformatics, Gene Ontology, Mapping Terminologies, Medical Informatics, Unified Medical Language System",
author = "Cantor, {M. N.} and Sarkar, {I. N.} and R. Gelman and F. Hartel and O. Bodenreider and Lussier, {Y. A.}",
year = "2003",
doi = "10.3233/978-1-60750-939-4-62",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "1586033476",
series = "Studies in Health Technology and Informatics",
publisher = "IOS Press",
pages = "62--67",
booktitle = "The New Navigators",
address = "Netherlands",
note = "18th International Congress of the European Federation for Medical Informatics, MIE 2003 ; Conference date: 04-05-2003 Through 07-05-2003",
}