Yousef Abuzir
Computer Information Systems Department,
AlQuds Open University, Palestine
Abstract
Due to the current availability of a large collection of electronic resources, there is an interest in extracting knowledge and retrieving automatically from these electronic resources. Thus, researchers may miss relevant, even critical, information in parallel or disparate fields, which in turn may lead them to recreate information already developed or to miss important information that could advance each discipline. A Medical thesaurus identifies and clarifies important concepts from these disciplines and standardizes their corresponding terms. This paper reviews the structure, construction and use of Medical thesauri, and outlines how Medical Thesauri may help resolve a number of common difficulties encountered when searching these recourses. The increasing importance of the medical online resources as an information resource make the thesaurus as an aid tool for both professionals and non-experts.
Keywords
Medical thesaurus, Thesauri use, thesaurus construction, indexing, information retrieval.