A Comprehensive Approach to Developing and Integrating Multilingual Classifications: GALEN's Classification Workbench
Alan L. Rector, Robert H Baud, Werner M Ceusters, Arno Claassen, Jean Marie Rodrigues, Jeremy Rogers, Angelo Rossi Mori, Egbert J. van der Haring, W D Solomon, Pieter E. Zanstra · PubMed Central · 1998
The GALEN Classification Workbench presents a new user-oriented paradigm for maintaining terminologies which combines flexibility with formal rigour. It is based on three mechanisms: a user oriented ‘intermediate representation’, a formal description logic, and generated natural language. New terms are composed in the ‘intermediate representation’ which is transformed into the formal description logic from which natural language phrases are then generated. The formal description logic allows terms to be classified and manipulated rigorously while the intermediate representation and generated natural language allow the system to be tailored to the needs of individual users and applications.