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Comparing small graph retrieval performance for ontology concepts in medical texts

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Abstract

Some terminologies and ontologies, such as SNOMED CT, allow for post–coordinated as well as pre-coordinated expressions. Post– coordinated expressions are, essentially, small segments of the terminology graphs. Compositional expressions add logical and linguistic relations to the standard technique of post-coordination. In indexing medical text, many instances of compositional expressions must be stored, and in performing retrieval on that index, entire compositional expressions and sub-parts of those expressions must be searched. The problem becomes a small graph query against a large collection of small graphs. This is further complicated by the need to also find sub-graphs from a collection of small graphs. In previous systems using compositional expressions, such as iNLP, the index was stored in a relational database. We compare retrieval characteristics of relational databases, triplestores, and general graph databases to determine which is most efficient for the task at hand.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBiomedical Data Management and Graph Online Querying - VLDB 2015 Workshops, Big-O(Q) and DMAH, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsArijit Khan, Gang Luo, Chunhua Weng, Fusheng Wang, Prasenjit Mitra, Cong Yu
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages32-44
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783319415758
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Event1st International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare, DMAH 2015 and Workshop on Big-Graphs Online Querying, Big-O(Q) 2015 held in conjunction with 41st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2015 - Waikoloa, United States
Duration: Aug 31 2015Sep 4 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9579
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference1st International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare, DMAH 2015 and Workshop on Big-Graphs Online Querying, Big-O(Q) 2015 held in conjunction with 41st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityWaikoloa
Period08/31/1509/4/15

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