EMTREE Thesaurus
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An EMTREE Thesaurus is a life science thesaurus managed by Elsevier.
- See: EMBASE Database.
References
2010
- http://www.embase.com/info/helpfiles/emtree-tool/emtree-thesaurus
- Emtree allows you to explore our thesaurus and build powerful searches. You can identify the most suitable terms, check the scope notes, browse the tree facets, build a query using several Emtree terms or take your Emtree term to either the Advanced, Drug or Disease Search.
2004
- (Stuckenschmidt et al., 2004) ⇒ Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Frank Van Harmelen, Anita De Waard, Tony Scerri, Ravinder Bhogal, Jan Van Buel, Ian Crowlesmith, Christiaan Fluit, Arjohn Kampman, Jeen Broekstra, and Erik van Mulligen. (2004). “Exploring Large Document Repositories with RDF Technology: The DOPE Project.” In: Intelligent Systems, IEEE Journal, 19(3). doi:10.1109/MIS.2004.9 author
- QUOTE: Elsevier maintains the EMTREE thesaurus as a terminological resource for life science researchers. EMTREE is used to index EMBASE, a human-indexed online database. EMTREE currently contains the following information types.
- Facets are broad topic areas that divide the thesaurus into independent hierarchies.
- Each facet consists of a hierarchy of preferred terms used as index keywords to describe a resource’s information content. Facet names are not themselves preferred terms, and they cannot be used as index keywords. A term can occur in more than one facet; that is, EMTREE is poly-hierarchical.
- Preferred terms are enriched by a set of synonyms — alternative terms that can be used to refer to the corresponding preferred term. A person can use synonyms to index or query information, but they will be normalized to the preferred term internally.
- Links, a subclass of the preferred terms, serve as subheadings for other index keywords. They denote a context or aspect for the main term to which they are linked. Two kinds of link terms, drug-links and disease-links, can be used as subheadings for a term denoting a drug or a disease.
- QUOTE: Elsevier maintains the EMTREE thesaurus as a terminological resource for life science researchers. EMTREE is used to index EMBASE, a human-indexed online database. EMTREE currently contains the following information types.