http://hdl.handle.net/10884/200 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:42:39 GMT 2026-04-21T22:42:39Z http://hdl.handle.net/10884/1367 Title: A Methodology to Develop a Clinical Ontology for Healthcare Business. Authors: Macedo, Mario; Isaías, Pedro Abstract: he development of clinical ontologies using common clinical data is a very important issue to record healthcare patient history, to use medical guidelines and to services accountability. The usage of terminologies already developed and available like SNOMED is a benefit. However many doctors argue that they prefer to continue using natural language and unstructured text to record patient data. Their point of view is that natural language is much more complete and flexible than standardized terminologies. This study intends to prove that it is possible to recognize patterns from natural language and identify the clinical procedures as they would be written with a normalized language. Another delivery of this study would be a precisely accountability of healthcare services. Description: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-21669-5_34 Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10884/1367 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10884/1366 Title: Semantic Intelligence Interfaces for Ambient Assisted Living Authors: Macedo, Mario; Billonet, Laurent Abstract: The development of semantic intelligence interfaces capable of extracting data from speeches and converting structured texts into voice will be the next paradigm of intelligent interfaces for ambient assisted living (AAL). Nowadays some of these devices like touchpads have microphones and speakers. So we have another type of interface that could use voice to communicate on both directions. The usage of microphones as an interface with the software applications has a great advantage of not having the constraints of using the hands to communicate with the device. This will improve the accessibility and ubiquity of the solution and could also improve its efficiency and effectiveness. Sometimes this could be crucial for our propose if for instance the user is unable to reach the mobile device or if the user cannot use the hands. There are some devices that use voice commands to trigger some actions. The cell phones contact lists can be an example of that. However if the user is reporting a situation like for example if a nurse is assisting a patient and is reporting the nursing interventions the system must have the intelligence to recognize the speech, translate it into text and then retrieve information from the text. There are some libraries with application programming interfaces for different platforms that can be integrated to acquire voice speech and convert it into text. Our main aim is to convert free text into structured expressions and to convert these expressions in normalized terms. We intend to use intelligent agents to achieve this goal. This study explores some methodologies and techniques of extracting expressions and relating them with normalized terms and ontologies. With these techniques it will be possible to promote better systems to promote AAL, conducting epidemiologic studies and increase the patients’ safety. Description: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/presentation/3137/b042a082bef43ed1a344924c3374110b3e32.pdf Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10884/1366 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10884/134 Title: Metadata Migration into Greenstone: A case study in a small size library Authors: Rocha, Luis Manuel; Taborda, Filipa Description: As a case study, this paper focus on an information delivery problem which is how a small university library dealt with the problem of cataloging and delivering access to a digital collection of final works in all courses. Those collections are very useful to potential students and final students in all fields of studies. (...) Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10884/134 2011-09-21T00:00:00Z