NCBO Webinar - James Geller, October 20 at 10:00am PT

The next NCBO Webinar will be presented by Dr. James Geller from the New
Jersey Institute of Technology on "The Neighborhood Auditing Tool for the
UMLS and its Source Terminologies" at 10:00am PDT, Wednesday, October 20.
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NCBO Webinar presentations see: http://www.bioontology.org/webinar-series.


ABSTRACT:
The UMLS's integration of more than 100 source vocabularies makes it
susceptible to errors.  Furthermore, its size and complexity can make it
very difficult to locate such errors.  A software tool, called the
Neighborhood Auditing Tool (NAT), that facilitates UMLS auditing is
presented.  The NAT supports "neighborhood-based" auditing, where, at any
given time, an auditor concentrates on a single focus concept and one of a
variety of neighborhoods of its closely related concepts.  The NAT can be
seen as a special browser for the complex structure of the UMLS's
hierarchies.  Typical diagrammatic displays of concept networks have a
number of shortcomings, so the NAT utilizes a hybrid diagram/text interface
that features stylized neighborhood views which retain some of the best
features of both the diagrammatic layouts and text windows while avoiding
the shortcomings.  The NAT allows an auditor to display knowledge from both
the Metathesaurus (concept) level and the Semantic Network (semantic type)
level.  Various additional features of the NAT that support the auditing
process are described.  The usefulness of the NAT is demonstrated through a
group of case studies.  Its impact is tested with a study involving a select
group of auditors.


BIO:
Dr. James Geller received an Electrical Engineering Diploma from the
Technical University, Vienna, Austria, in 1979, and the MS Degree (1984) and
Ph.D. degree (1988) in Computer Science from the State University of New
York at Buffalo.  Dr. Geller joined the Computer Science Department of the
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in 1988. He was granted tenure and
promoted to associate professor in 1993. Subsequently he was promoted to
full professor in 2000.  Dr. Geller has authored and co-authored about forty
journal papers and over fifty conference papers. These papers are in a
number of areas, including Knowledge Representation, the Semantic Web,
Semantic Modeling in Object-Oriented Databases, Web Mining, Medical
Informatics, Medical Vocabularies, and Auditing of Ontologies and Medical
Terminologies.


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Topic: NCBO Webinar Series
Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Time: 10:00 am, Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00)
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