Gooch, P. (2011). Systematic identification and correction of spelling errors in the Foundational Model of Anatomy. Paper presented at the 4th International Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences Workshop, 07-12-2011 - 09-12-2011, London.
Abstract
We describe a method for automating the detection and correction of spelling errors in the Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA). The FMA was tokenized into 4893 distinct words; misspellings were identified and corrected using the National Library of Medicine’s SPECIALIST GSpell Spelling Suggestion API. We identified 43 errors occurring in 97 terms, and 6 words of questionable or inconsistent spelling occurring in 26 terms. These errors are replicated in other reference terminologies that use the FMA. Our approach may be useful as part of a quality assurance process for other large-scale biomedical knowledge resources.
Publication Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > ZA Information resources > ZA4050 Electronic information resources |
Departments: | School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering > Computer Science |