Open AccessProcedures for mapping vocabularies from non‐professional discourse a case study: “Consumer medical vocabulary”
Author(s) -
Tse Tony,
Soergel Dagobert
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
proceedings of the american society for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1550-8390
pISSN - 0044-7870
DOI - 10.1002/meet.1450400122
Subject(s) - terminology , vocabulary , bridge (graph theory) , computer science , controlled vocabulary , domain (mathematical analysis) , health professionals , medical terminology , linguistics , knowledge management , natural language processing , health care , data science , artificial intelligence , medicine , political science , mathematical analysis , philosophy , mathematics , law
Non‐professionals are often unable to access or comprehend information in specialized domains because of technical terminology. Understanding domain‐specific vocabulary commonly used by laypersons will help bridge this gap. This paper describes in detail a methodology for collecting and extracting linguistic forms from documents authored by healthcare consumers. The forms were mapped to concepts and the resulting terms were analyzed. Although the case study uses examples from a “consumer medical vocabulary,” the procedures are applicable to investigating non‐professional vocabularies in other domains.