Enabling semantic similarity estimation across multiple ontologies: An evaluation in the biomedical domain

• Published in: Journal of biomedical informatics Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 141 - 155
• Main Authors: Sánchez, David, Solé-Ribalta, Albert, Batet, Montserrat, Serratosa, Francesc
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.02.2012
• Subjects: Algorithms; Medical Informatics - methods; Medical Subject Headings; MeSH; Multiple ontologies; Semantic similarity; Semantics; Unified Medical Language System; WordNet; MeSH; Semantic similarity; Multiple ontologies; WordNet

[Display omitted] ► Methods to enable the estimation of semantic similarity between different ontologies are presented. ► They rely on the assessment of the semantic overlapping and structural similarity between ontological concepts. ► Evaluated with several edge-counting similarity measures, two bi...