Extending SemRep to the public health domain

Graciela Rosemblat, Melissa P. Resnick, Ione Auston, Dongwook Shin, Charles Sneiderman, Marcelo Fizsman and Thomas C. Rindflesch

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2013, vol. 64, issue 10, 1963-1974

Abstract: We describe the use of a domain‐independent method to extend a natural language processing (NLP) application, SemRep (Rindflesch, Fiszman, & Libbus, 2005), based on the knowledge sources afforded by the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS®; Humphreys, Lindberg, Schoolman, & Barnett, 1998) to support the area of health promotion within the public health domain. Public health professionals require good information about successful health promotion policies and programs that might be considered for application within their own communities. Our effort seeks to improve access to relevant information for the public health profession, to help those in the field remain an information‐savvy workforce. Natural language processing and semantic techniques hold promise to help public health professionals navigate the growing ocean of information by organizing and structuring this knowledge into a focused public health framework paired with a user‐friendly visualization application as a way to summarize results of PubMed® searches in this field of knowledge.

Date: 2013
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