Terminological mapping
OwnerYves Lussier, Jianrong Liinventors
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Abstract
The present invention relates to the systematic use of terminology and knowledge based technologies to enable high-throughput mapping between databases having different vocabularies. In particular embodiments, it may be used to map between a database having a phenotypic terminology descriptive of non-human animals and a database having a broad-coverage clinical (anthropocentric) terminology.
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A method for mapping a first vocabulary term, having a plurality of elements, in a first database to a second vocabulary term in a second database, wherein at least the second database contains terms associated with conceptual identifiers, comprising the steps of (1) decomposing the first term of the first database into component elements;
- (2) generating a plurality of combinations of elements to produce a set of combinatorial terms;
- (3) performing a mapping operation to map a plurality of combinatorial terms to terms in the second database, thereby producing a set of mapped term pairs;
- (4) performing conceptual processing to form a processed set of mapped term pairs having unique conceptual identifiers;
- and (5) performing semantic processing to remove any mapped term pair having an irrelevant conceptual identifer, wherein a mapped term pair of the result set allows the joining of a record associated with the first term of the first database with a record associated with the second term of the second database.
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