Terminology Server
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A Terminology Server is a piece of software providing a range of terminology
-related software services through an Applications Programming Interface to its client applications.
Typical terminology services might include:
See also Clinical Terminology Server
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Terminology
Terminology is the study of terms and their use. Terms are words and compound words that in specific contexts are given specific meanings, meanings that may deviate from the meaning the same words have in other contexts and in everyday language. The discipline Terminology studies among other...
-related software services through an Applications Programming Interface to its client applications.
Typical terminology services might include:
- Matching an abitrary, user defined text entry string (or regular expressionRegular expressionIn computing, a regular expression provides a concise and flexible means for "matching" strings of text, such as particular characters, words, or patterns of characters. Abbreviations for "regular expression" include "regex" and "regexp"...
) against a fixed internal list of natural languageNatural languageIn the philosophy of language, a natural language is any language which arises in an unpremeditated fashion as the result of the innate facility for language possessed by the human intellect. A natural language is typically used for communication, and may be spoken, signed, or written...
expressions, possibly using word equivalent, alternate spelling, abbreviationAbbreviationAn abbreviation is a shortened form of a word or phrase. Usually, but not always, it consists of a letter or group of letters taken from the word or phrase...
or part-of-speech substitution tables, and other lexical resources, to increase the recall and precision of the matching algorithm - Retrieving any asserted associations between a fixed list of terminology expressions in one language and translations in another natural languageNatural languageIn the philosophy of language, a natural language is any language which arises in an unpremeditated fashion as the result of the innate facility for language possessed by the human intellect. A natural language is typically used for communication, and may be spoken, signed, or written...
- Retrieving any asserted associations between a fixed list of terminology expressions, and entities in a concept system or ontology (information science)
- Retrieving any asserted or inferrable semantic links between concepts in a concept system or ontology (information science), particularly subsumption (Is-aIs-aIn knowledge representation, object-oriented programming and design, is-a or is_a or is a is a relationship where one class D is a subclass of another class B ....
) relationships - Retrieving any directly asserted, or the best approximate indirectly inferrable, associations between concepts in an ontology and entities in one or more external resources (e.g. libraries of images, decision support rules or statistical classifications)
See also Clinical Terminology Server
Clinical Terminology Server
A Clinical Terminology Server is a Terminology Server, which contains and provides access to clinical terminology.- Background :The first generic description of general terminology servers per se was produced by theEuropean GALEN Project. Rector et al...
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