Politics, Procedures, and Pitfalls in Producing Pluperfect Phraseology

9/20/2006


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Table of Contents

Politics, Procedures, and Pitfalls in Producing Pluperfect Phraseology

Creating A Vocabulary

Developmental Problems?

Fundamental Differences

Human Language

Computer Requirements

Human Limitations

Formalization Gap

Cooperative Computation

Databases and Other Knowledge Systems

Pre-Computational Examples

Human Authority Files

Implications of the Formalization Gap

Humpty Dumpty Phenomenon

Categories and Concepts

Example: Exercise

Intensionality Problem

Working Around the Problem

Problems in Updating

Process and Decision Making

Political Interests

Interactions with Systems

Update Problems

Terminology Responses

Final Observations

Duality of Central Notions

Boundary Phenomenon

Nelson's Lemma

Neurath's Boat

Good Practices

Author: Stuart J. Nelson, MD

Email: nelson@nlm.nih.gov

Home Page: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/