Modelisation of a Criterion of Proximity: Application to Medical Thesauri
Petiot Dominique, Burgun Anita, Le Beux Pierre · Studies in health technology and informatics · 1996
Proximity is a concept related to distance or common features between things. In the medical domain, proximity is based on semantic characteristics of the terms. Proximity between medical terms is in relation with the position of the terms within a terminology and with the common features between terms. We suggest a model of calculation of proximity between medical concepts which takes into account these two approaches.