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  • Title: Targeting stopwords for quality assurance of SNOMED-CT.
    Author: Burse R, McArdle G, Bertolotto M.
    Journal: Int J Med Inform; 2022 Nov; 167():104870. PubMed ID: 36148752.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVE: We assess the potential of exploiting stopwords in biomedical concept names to complete the logical definitions of concepts that are not sufficiently defined. METHODS: Concepts containing stopwords are selected from the Disorder hierarchy of Systematized NOmenclature of MEDicine (SNOMED-CT). SNOMED-CT consists of two types of concepts: Fully Defined (FD) concepts which are sufficiently defined and Partially Defined (PD) concepts which are not sufficiently defined. In this work, FD concepts containing stopwords are treated as a source of ground truth to complete the definitions of, lexically and semantically similar, PD concepts. FD and PD concepts are lexically and semantically analysed to create sample-sets. Mandatory attribute-relationships are calculated by using an intersection-set logic for each FD sample-set. PD sample-sets are audited against this mandatory attribute-relationship template to identify inconsistencies in modelling styles and potentially missing attribute-relationships. RESULTS: Lexical and semantic patterns around 11 stopwords were analysed. 26 sample-sets were extracted for the 11 stopwords. Mandatory attribute-relationships were identified for 24 of the 26 sample-sets. The method identified 62.5% - 72.22% of the PD concepts, containing the stopwords in and due to, to be inconsistent in their modelling style and potentially missing at least one attribute-relationship according to the created template.
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