Alan L. Rector

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  • University of Manchester, School of Computer Science


According to our database1, Alan L. Rector authored at least 138 papers between 1983 and 2019.

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2019
On beyond Gruber: "Ontologies" in today's biomedical information systems and the limits of OWL.
J. Biomed. Informatics X, 2019

2018
Scrutinizing SNOMED CT's Ability to Reconcile Clinical Language Ambiguities with an Ontology Representation.
Proceedings of the Building Continents of Knowledge in Oceans of Data: The Future of Co-Created eHealth, 2018

2017
Interface Terminologies, Reference Terminologies and Aggregation Terminologies: A Strategy for Better Integration.
Proceedings of the MEDINFO 2017: Precision Healthcare through Informatics, 2017

Scrutinizing the Axiomatic Basis of SNOMED CT: How Confused is it by the Ambiguous Terminology Paradigm?
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2017), Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, September 13th, 2017

Is the Application of SNOMED CT Concept Model sufficiently Quality Assured?
Proceedings of the AMIA 2017, 2017

2016
Representing ICD-11 JLMMS Using IHTSDO Representation Formalisms.
Proceedings of the Exploring Complexity in Health: An Interdisciplinary Systems Approach - Proceedings of MIE2016 at HEC2016, Munich, Germany, 28 August, 2016

ICD-11 (JLMMS) and SCT Inter-Operation.
Proceedings of the Health Informatics Meets eHealth - Predictive Modeling in Healthcare - From Prediction to Prevention, 2016

2015
Using the wisdom of the crowds to find critical errors in biomedical ontologies: a study of SNOMED CT.
J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., 2015

What's a "disease"? Questions for applied ontologies of diseases.
Appl. Ontology, 2015


Harmonization of ICD-11 and SNOMED CT - Not just mapping! Practical and Theoretical Lessons & Benefits to Users and Implementers.
Proceedings of the AMIA 2015, 2015

What causes pneumonia? Kinds of Knowledge and the Case for Hybrid Representations.
Proceedings of the AMIA 2015, 2015

2014
Semantic Web and Big Data meets Applied Ontology - The Ontology Summit 2014.
Appl. Ontology, 2014

What's in a Class? Lessons Learnt from the ICD - SNOMED CT Harmonisation.
Proceedings of the e-Health - For Continuity of Care - Proceedings of MIE2014, the 25th European Medical Informatics Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, August 31, 2014

ICD-11 and SNOMED CT Common Ontology: Circulatory System.
Proceedings of the e-Health - For Continuity of Care - Proceedings of MIE2014, the 25th European Medical Informatics Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, August 31, 2014

A Web-Based Tool for Development of a Common Ontology between ICD11 and SNOMED-CT.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, 2014

An Ontological Analysis of Reference in Health Record Statements.
Proceedings of the Formal Ontology in Information Systems, 2014

A Domain Specific Ontology Authoring Environment for a Clinical Documentation System.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2014

2013
OntoVerbal: a Generic Tool and Practical Application to SNOMED CT.
CoRR, 2013

Do we need a Common Ontology between ICD 11 and SNOMED CT to ensure Seamless Re-Use and Semantic Interoperability?
Proceedings of the MEDINFO 2013, 2013

Sharing Ontology between ICD 11 and SNOMED CT will enable Seamless Re-use and Semantic Interoperability.
Proceedings of the MEDINFO 2013, 2013

Reusable Knowledge for Best Clinical Practices: Why We Have Difficulty Sharing and What We Can Do.
Proceedings of the MEDINFO 2013, 2013

Axioms & templates: distinctions & transformationsamongst ontologies, frames, & information models.
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Knowledge Capture, 2013

2012
Lexically suggest, logically define: Quality assurance of the use of qualifiers and expected results of post-coordination in SNOMED CT.
J. Biomed. Informatics, 2012

Analysing Syntactic Regularities and Irregularities in SNOMED-CT.
J. Biomed. Semant., 2012

Engineering use cases for modular development of ontologies in OWL.
Appl. Ontology, 2012

Representation of Part-Whole Relationships in SNOMED CT.
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2012), 2012

OntoVerbal: a Protégé plugin for verbalising ontology classes.
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2012), 2012

What's missing? DLs, OWL and the Ecology of Semantic Systems.
Proceedings of the 2012 International Workshop on Description Logics, 2012

Competing Interpretations of Disorder Codes in SNOMED CT and ICD.
Proceedings of the AMIA 2012, 2012

2011
Using OWL ontologies for adaptive patient information modelling and preoperative clinical decision support.
Knowl. Inf. Syst., 2011

Getting the foot out of the pelvis: modeling problems affecting use of SNOMED CT hierarchies in practical applications.
J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., 2011

Inspecting regularities and irregularities in SNOMED-CT.
Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for the Life Sciences, 2011

Inspecting Regularities in Ontology Design Using Clustering.
Proceedings of the Semantic Web - ISWC 2011, 2011

OntoVerbal-M: a Multilingual Verbaliser for SNOMED CT.
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web, 2011

Quality assurance of the content of a large DL-based terminology using mixed lexical and semantic criteria: experience with SNOMED CT.
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2011), 2011

A Case Study of ICD-11 Anatomy Value Set Extraction from SNOMED CT.
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, 2011

Unlocking Medical Ontologies for Non-Ontology Experts.
Proceedings of the 2011 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing, 2011

Automatic Verbalisation of SNOMED Classes Using OntoVerbal.
Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 2011

2010
Towards an ontology for psychosis.
Cogn. Syst. Res., 2010

Experience of Using OWL Ontologies for Automated Inference of Routine Pre-operative Screening Tests.
Proceedings of the Semantic Web - ISWC 2010 - 9th International Semantic Web Conference, 2010

Knowledge Driven Software and "Fractal Tailoring": Ontologies in development environments for clinical systems.
Proceedings of the Formal Ontology in Information Systems, 2010

Assessing the Safety of Knowledge Patterns in OWL Ontologies.
Proceedings of the Semantic Web: Research and Applications, 2010

Enriching the Gene Ontology via the Dissection of Labels Using the Ontology Pre-processor Language.
Proceedings of the Knowledge Engineering and Management by the Masses, 2010

2009
Binding ontologies and coding systems to electronic health records and messages.
Appl. Ontology, 2009

A Hybrid Architecture for a Preoperative Decision Support System Using a Rule Engine and a Reasoner on a Clinical Ontology.
Proceedings of the Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, Third International Conference, 2009

Semi-automatic Generation of a Patient Preoperative Knowledge-Base from a Legacy Clinical Database.
Proceedings of the On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2009, 2009

Embedding Knowledge Patterns into OWL.
Proceedings of the Semantic Web: Research and Applications, 2009

Editing OWL through Generated CNL.
Proceedings of the Pre-Proceedings of the Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2009), 2009

Development of an ontology for a preoperative risk assessment clinical decision support system.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Second IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2009

2008
Anatomy for Clinical Terminology.
Proceedings of the Anatomy Ontologies for Bioinformatics, Principles and Practice, 2008

Integration of tools for binding archetypes to SNOMED CT.
BMC Medical Informatics Decis. Mak., 2008

Viewpoint Paper: Why Do It the Hard Way? The Case for an Expressive Description Logic for SNOMED.
J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., 2008

Integrating Object-Oriented and Ontological Representations: A Case Study in Java and OWL.
Proceedings of the Semantic Web - ISWC 2008, 7th International Semantic Web Conference, 2008

What Causes Pneumonia? The Case for a Standard Semantics for "may" in OWL.
Proceedings of the Fifth OWLED Workshop on OWL: Experiences and Directions, 2008

Barriers to the use of OWL in Knowledge Driven Applications.
Proceedings of the Fifth OWLED Workshop on OWL: Experiences and Directions, 2008

A Generic Software Framework for Building Hybrid Ontology-Backed Models for Driving Applications.
Proceedings of the Fourth OWLED Workshop on OWL: Experiences and Directions, 2008

Calculations in OWL.
Proceedings of the Fifth OWLED Workshop on OWL: Experiences and Directions, 2008

Augmenting the Expressivity of the Ontology Pre-Processor Language.
Proceedings of the Fifth OWLED Workshop on OWL: Experiences and Directions, 2008

Using Ontologies for an Intelligent Patient Modelling, Adaptation and Management System.
Proceedings of the On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2008, 2008

A Deployment and Research Roadmap for Semantic Interoperability: the EU SemanticHEALTH project.
Proceedings of the eHealth Beyond the Horizon, 2008

Interoperability of Data Models and Terminology Models : Issues with using the SNOMED CT terminology.
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Knowledge Representation in Medicine, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, May 31st, 2008

Why do it the hard way? The Case for an Expressive Description Logic for SNOMED.
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Knowledge Representation in Medicine, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, May 31st, 2008

Ontology-Driven Adaptive Medical Information Collection System.
Proceedings of the Foundations of Intelligent Systems, 17th International Symposium, 2008

Applying Ontology Design Patterns in Bio-ontologies.
Proceedings of the Knowledge Engineering: Practice and Patterns, 2008

Gathering Precise Patient Medical History with an Ontology-Driven Adaptive Questionnaire.
Proceedings of the Twenty-First IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2008

Building Modular Ontologies and Specifying Ontology Joining, Binding, Localizing and Programming Interfaces in Ontologies Implemented in OWL.
Proceedings of the Symbiotic Relationships between Semantic Web and Knowledge Engineering, 2008

2007
Using OWL to model biological knowledge.
Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., 2007

Achieving fine-grained access control in virtual organizations.
Concurr. Comput. Pract. Exp., 2007

What's in a code? Towards a Formal Account of the Relation of Ontologies and Coding Systems.
Proceedings of the MEDINFO 2007 - Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics, 2007

Semantic Issues in Integrating Data from Different Models to Achieve Data Interoperability.
Proceedings of the MEDINFO 2007 - Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics, 2007

The State of Multi-User Ontology Engineering.
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Modular Ontologies, WoMO 2007, 2007

A methodology for asynchronous multi-user editing of semantic web ontologies.
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2007), 2007

Unambiguous data modeling to ensure higher accuracy term binding to clinical terminologies.
Proceedings of the AMIA 2007, 2007

2006
A Collaborative Biomedical Research System.
J. Univers. Comput. Sci., 2006

Granularity, scale and collectivity: When size does and does not matter.
J. Biomed. Informatics, 2006

Web ontology segmentation: analysis, classification and use.
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web, 2006

Ontological and Practical Issues in Using a Description Logic to Represent Medical Concept Systems: Experience from GALEN.
Proceedings of the Reasoning Web, 2006

The Manchester OWL Syntax.
Proceedings of the OWLED*06 Workshop on OWL: Experiences and Directions, 2006

Putting OWL in Order: Patterns for Sequences in OWL.
Proceedings of the OWLED*06 Workshop on OWL: Experiences and Directions, 2006

An Ontology driven collaborative development for biomedical terminologies: from the French CCAM to the Australian ICHI coding system.
Proceedings of the Ubiquity: Technologies for Better Health in Aging Societies, 2006

Binding Ontologies & Coding Systems to Electronic Health Records and Messages.
Proceedings of the KR-MED 2006, 2006

Users Are Always Right ... Even When They Are Wrong: Making Knowledge Representation Useful and Usable.
Proceedings of the Proceedings, 2006

The CLEF Chronicle: Patient Histories Derived from Electronic Health Records.
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops, 2006

Representing Transitive Propagation in OWL.
Proceedings of the Conceptual Modeling, 2006

Knowledge Elicitation Plug-In for Protégé: Card Sorting and Laddering.
Proceedings of the Semantic Web, 2006

2005
Rapid application design of an electronic clinical skills portfolio for undergraduate medical students.
Comput. Methods Programs Biomed., 2005

Plugging a Scalable Authentication Framework into Shibboleth.
Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies (WETICE 2005), 2005

Debugging OWL-DL Ontologies: A Heuristic Approach.
Proceedings of the Semantic Web - ISWC 2005, 4th International Semantic Web Conference, 2005

The Protege OWL Experience.
Proceedings of the OWLED*05 Workshop on OWL: Experiences and Directions, 2005

A Linkable Identity Privacy Algorithm for HealthGrid.
Proceedings of the From Grid to Healthgrid, 2005

2004
Defaults, Context, and Knowledge: Alternatives for OWL-Indexed Knowledge Bases.
Proceedings of the Biocomputing 2004, 2004

Models and Inference Methods for Clinical Systems: A Principled Approach.
Proceedings of the MEDINFO 2004, 2004

OWL Pizzas: Practical Experience of Teaching OWL-DL: Common Errors & Common Patterns.
Proceedings of the Engineering Knowledge in the Age of the Semantic Web, 2004

Editing Description Logic Ontologies with the Protégé OWL Plugin.
Proceedings of the 2004 International Workshop on Description Logics (DL2004), 2004

Towards an Authentication Middleware to Support Ubiquitous Web Access.
Proceedings of the 28th International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2004), 2004

2003
A formal representation for messages containing compositional expressions.
Int. J. Medical Informatics, 2003

Modularisation of domain ontologies implemented in description logics and related formalisms including OWL.
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2003), 2003

Medical Informatics.
Proceedings of the Description Logic Handbook: Theory, Implementation, and Applications, 2003

OpenGALEN: Open Source Medical Terminology and Tools.
Proceedings of the AMIA 2003, 2003

2002
Analysis of propagation along transitive roles: Formalisation of the GALEN experience with Medical Ontologies.
Proceedings of the 2002 International Workshop on Description Logics (DL2002), 2002

Scale and context: issues in ontologies to link health- and bio-informatics.
Proceedings of the AMIA 2002, 2002

2001
Research Paper: Structural Validation of Nursing Terminologies.
J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., 2001

AIM: a personal view of where I have been and where we might be going.
Artif. Intell. Medicine, 2001

GALEN Ten Years On: Tasks and Supporting Tools.
Proceedings of the MEDINFO 2001, 2001

The Interface between Information, Terminology, and Inference Models.
Proceedings of the MEDINFO 2001, 2001

Untangling taxonomies and relationships: personal and practical problems in loosely coupled development of large ontologies.
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2001), 2001

Integrating existing drug formulation terminologies into an HL7 standard classification using OpenGALEN.
Proceedings of the AMIA 2001, 2001

Interface of Inference Models with Concept and Medical Record Models.
Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence Medicine, 2001

2000
Inheritance of Drug Information.
Proceedings of the AMIA 2000, 2000

Having our cake and eating it too: how the GALEN Intermediate Representation reconciles internal complexity with users' requirements for appropriateness and simplicity.
Proceedings of the AMIA 2000, 2000

GALEN's model of parts and wholes: experience and comparisons.
Proceedings of the AMIA 2000, 2000

NLP techniques associated with the OpenGALEN ontology for semi-automatic textual extraction of medical knowledge: abstracting and mapping equivalent linguistic and logical constructs.
Proceedings of the AMIA 2000, 2000

1999
A reference terminology for drugs.
Proceedings of the AMIA 1999, 1999

1998
Reconciling users' needs and formal requirements: issues in developing a reusable ontology for medicine.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Technol. Biomed., 1998

Research Paper: Modeling Nursing Terminology Using the GRAIL Representation Language.
J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., 1998

Supporting the use of the GALEN Intermediate Representation.
Proceedings of the AMIA 1998, 1998

Validating clinical terminology structures: integration and cross-validation of Read Thesaurus and GALEN.
Proceedings of the AMIA 1998, 1998

A Comprehensive Approach to Developing and Integrating Multilingual Classifications: GALEN's Classification Workbench.
Proceedings of the AMIA 1998, 1998

1997
The GRAIL concept modelling language for medical terminology.
Artif. Intell. Medicine, 1997

Terminological systems: bridging the generation gap.
Proceedings of the AMIA 1997, 1997

1996
A Description Logic Based Schema for the Classification of Medical Data.
Proceedings of the Knowledge Representation Meets Databases, 1996

Using a Description Logic with Concept Inclusions.
Proceedings of the 1996 International Workshop on Description Logics, 1996

1995
Research Paper: Medical-Concept Models and Medical Records: An Approach Based on GALENand PEN&PAD.
J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., 1995

The Pragmatics of Naive Database Enquiry.
Proceedings of the Advances in Databases, 13th British National Conference on Databases, 1995

Coordinating Taxonomies: Key to Re-Usable Concept Representations.
Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence Medicine, 1995

1994
GUIDANCE: Making it Easy for the USer to be an Expert.
Proceedings of the Interfaces to Database Systems (IDS94), 1994

1993
A Descriptive Semantic Formalism for Medicine.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Data Engineering, 1993

1992
User centered development of a general practice medical workstation: the PEN&PAD experience.
Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1992

1991
PEN&PAD: A Multi-Lingual Patient Care Workstation based on a Unified Representation of the Medical Record and Medical Terminology.
Proceedings of the Medical Informatics Europe 1991, 1991

What <i>Should</i> We Mean by 'An Electronic Medical Record'?
Proceedings of the Medical Informatics Europe 1991, 1991

Requirements for a Medical Workstation using User-Centred Design.
Proceedings of the Medical Informatics Europe 1991, 1991

Medical Knowledge Representation and Predictive Data Entry.
Proceedings of the AIME 91, 1991

1990
Supporting a humanly impossible task: The clinical human computer environment.
Proceedings of the Human-Computer Interaction, 1990

Shedding Light on Patients' Problems: Integrating Knowledge Based Systems into Medical Practice.
Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1990

1989
Helping with a Humanly Impossible Task: Integrating Knowledge Based Systems into Clinical Care.
Proceedings of the Second Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence 1989, 1989

An Analysis of Uncertainty in British General Practice: Implications of a Preliminary Survey.
Proceedings of the AIME 89, 1989

1983
"Logal": Algorithmic Control Structures for Prolog.
Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Karlsruhe, 1983


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