Alan Rector

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Alan Rector is affiliated with the following schools: Victoria University of Manchester, University of Minnesota, University of Manchester

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According to Wikipedia, Alan L. Rector is a Professor of Medical Informatics in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester in the UK. Education Rector received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Pomona College, a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in 1987.

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Relations in biomedical ontologies (2005) (1106)
The Manchester OWL Syntax (2006) (377)
OWL Pizzas: Practical Experience of Teaching OWL-DL: Common Errors & Common Patterns (2004) (371)
The GRAIL concept modelling language for medical terminology (1997) (365)
Web ontology segmentation: analysis, classification and use (2006) (322)
MEDICAL INFORMATICS (1990) (310)
Clinical Terminology: Why Is it so Hard? (1999) (306)
Modularisation of domain ontologies implemented in description logics and related formalisms including OWL (2003) (294)
Foundations for an Electronic Medical Record (1991) (264)
A Terminology Server for Medical Language and Medical Information Systems (1995) (232)
Editing Description Logic Ontologies with the Protégé OWL Plugin (2004) (165)
Goals for concept representation in the GALEN project. (1993) (153)
Binding Ontologies & Coding Systems to Electronic Health Records and Messages (2006) (146)
Experience building a Large, Re-usable Medical Ontology using a Description Logic with Transitivity and Concept Inclusions (1997) (132)
The GALEN project. (1994) (127)
Debugging OWL-DL Ontologies: A Heuristic Approach (2005) (117)
Getting the foot out of the pelvis: modeling problems affecting use of SNOMED CT hierarchies in practical applications (2011) (109)
Using OWL to model biological knowledge (2007) (107)
Ontological and Practical Issues in Using a Description Logic to Represent Medical Concept Systems: Experience from GALEN (2006) (103)
GALEN's model of parts and wholes: experience and comparisons (2000) (100)
OpenGALEN: Open Source Medical Terminology and Tools (2003) (99)
A Framework for Modelling the Electronic Medical Record (1993) (98)
Thesauri and Formal Classifications: Terminologies for People and Machines (1998) (95)
Putting OWL in Order: Patterns for Sequences in OWL (2006) (92)
Granularity, scale and collectivity: When size does and does not matter (2006) (84)
Reconciling users' needs and formal requirements: issues in developing a reusable ontology for medicine (1998) (83)
Why do it the hard way? The Case for an Expressive Description Logic for SNOMED (2008) (80)
The Protege OWL Experience (2005) (76)
Lexically suggest, logically define: Quality assurance of the use of qualifiers and expected results of post-coordination in SNOMED CT (2012) (73)
Integration of tools for binding archetypes to SNOMED CT (2008) (73)
Semantic Interoperability for Better health and Safer Healthcare [34 pages] (2009) (72)
Using the wisdom of the crowds to find critical errors in biomedical ontologies: a study of SNOMED CT (2015) (67)
Embedding Knowledge Patterns into OWL (2009) (65)
Ontological Issues in using a Description Logic to Represent Medical Concepts: Experience from GALEN (2004) (64)
Frames and OWL Side by Side (2006) (62)
Defaults, Context, and Knowledge: Alternatives for OWL-Indexed Knowledge Bases (2003) (62)
Research Paper: Modeling Nursing Terminology Using the GRAIL Representation Language (1998) (61)
Rubrics to dissections to GRAIL to classifications. (1997) (57)
Applying Ontology Design Patterns in Bio-ontologies (2008) (54)
The Interface between Information, Terminology, and Inference Models (2001) (53)
Using OWL ontologies for adaptive patient information modelling and preoperative clinical decision support (2011) (53)
A Description Logic Based Schema for the Classification of Medical Data (1996) (51)
Decision-Making in General Practice (1985) (51)
GALEN Ten Years On: Tasks and Supporting Tools (2001) (50)
The GALEN CORE Model Schemata for Anatomy: Towards a Re-usable Application-Independent Model of Medical Concepts (2008) (48)
Analysis of propagation along transitive roles: Formalisation of the GALEN experience with Medical Ontologies (2002) (47)
Security and Confidentiality Approach for the Clinical E-Science Framework (CLEF) (2003) (47)
The PEN&PAD data entry system: from prototype to practical system. (1996) (47)
Integrating Object-Oriented and Ontological Representations: A Case Study in Java and OWL (2008) (46)
Untangling taxonomies and relationships: personal and practical problems in loosely coupled development of large ontologies (2001) (46)
CLEF - Joining up Healthcare with Clinical and Post-Genomic Research (2003) (45)
Research Paper: Medical-Concept Models and Medical Records: An Approach Based on GALENand PEN&PAD (1995) (42)
Validating clinical terminology structures: integration and cross-validation of Read Thesaurus and GALEN (1998) (40)
A patient care workstation based on user centred design and a formal theory of medical terminology: PEN&PAD and the SMK formalism. (1991) (40)
Coordinating Taxonomies: Key to Re-Usable Concept Representations (1995) (39)
A reference terminology for drugs (1999) (39)
Practical development of re-usable terminologies: GALEN-IN-USE and the GALEN Organisation. (1998) (37)
Analysis of medical texts based on a sound medical model. (1995) (35)
Modelling for natural language understanding. (1993) (35)
Interface of Inference Models with Concept and Medical Record Models (2001) (35)
Development of an ontology for a preoperative risk assessment clinical decision support system (2009) (34)
Owl pizzas: Common errors & common patterns from practical experience of teaching owl-dl (2004) (33)
Unifying Medical Information Using an Architecture Based on Descriptions. (1990) (33)
Enriching the Gene Ontology via the Dissection of Labels Using the Ontology Pre-processor Language (2010) (32)
From terminology to terminology services. (1994) (31)
Terminological systems: bridging the generation gap (1997) (31)
Semantic Web and Big Data meets Applied Ontology - The Ontology Summit 2014 (2014) (31)
Multilingual natural language generation as part of a medical terminology server. (1995) (31)
Using Ontologies for an Intelligent Patient Modelling, Adaptation and Management System (2008) (31)
Semantic Issues in Integrating Data from Different Models to Achieve Data Interoperability (2007) (31)
Ontology-Driven Adaptive Medical Information Collection System (2008) (31)
Medical Knowledge Representation and Predictive Data Entry (1991) (30)
Unambiguous data modeling to ensure higher accuracy term binding to clinical terminologies (2007) (30)
Gathering Precise Patient Medical History with an Ontology-Driven Adaptive Questionnaire (2008) (30)
Interface Terminologies, Reference Terminologies and Aggregation Terminologies: A Strategy for Better Integration (2017) (30)
An Ontological Analysis of Reference in Health Record Statements (2014) (29)
User centered development of a general practice medical workstation: the PEN&PAD experience (1992) (28)
Engineering use cases for modular development of ontologies in OWL (2012) (28)
Building Ontologies in DAML + OIL (2003) (28)
Normalisation of ontology implementations : Towards modularity , re-use , and maintainability (2002) (27)
Semantic Mapping of Clinical Model Data to Biomedical Terminologies to Facilitate Data Interoperability (2006) (27)
The accuracy of age-sex registers in general practice. (1984) (27)
Terminologies and terminology servers for information environments (1997) (27)
Competing Interpretations of Disorder Codes in SNOMED CT and ICD (2012) (24)
Having our cake and eating it too: how the GALEN Intermediate Representation reconciles internal complexity with users' requirements for appropriateness and simplicity (2000) (24)
Inspecting Regularities in Ontology Design Using Clustering (2011) (24)
Models for representation of terminologies and coding systems in medicine. (1993) (24)
The CLEF Chronicle: Patient Histories Derived from Electronic Health Records (2006) (24)
Developing SNOMED CT Subsets from Clinical Notes for Intensive Care Service (2008) (23)
Automatic Verbalisation of SNOMED Classes Using OntoVerbal (2011) (23)
GUIDANCE: Making it Easy for the USer to be an Expert (1994) (23)
A descriptive semantic formalism for medicine (1993) (22)
AN OVERVIEW OF THE PEN & PAD PROJECT. (1990) (22)
Research Paper: Structural Validation of Nursing Terminologies (2001) (22)
Knowledge Elicitation Plug-In for Protégé: Card Sorting and Laddering (2006) (21)
PEN&PAD: A Doctors' Workstation with Intelligent Data Entry and Summaries. (1990) (21)
Experience of Using OWL Ontologies for Automated Inference of Routine Pre-operative Screening Tests (2010) (20)
On beyond Gruber: "Ontologies" in today's biomedical information systems and the limits of OWL (2019) (20)
Scale and context: issues in ontologies to link health- and bio-informatics (2002) (20)
OCRe: An Ontology of Clinical Research (2009) (20)
A Content Model for the ICD-11 Revision (2010) (20)
NLP techniques associated with the OpenGALEN ontology for semi-automatic textual extraction of medical knowledge: abstracting and mapping equivalent linguistic and logical constructs (2000) (20)
Discussion of “Biomedical Ontologies: Toward Scientific Debate” (2011) (20)
Representing Transitive Propagation in OWL (2006) (20)
Sharing Ontology between ICD 11 and SNOMED CT will enable Seamless Re-use and Semantic Interoperability (2013) (20)
A formal representation for messages containing compositional expressions (2003) (20)
A methodology for asynchronous multi-user editing of semantic web ontologies (2007) (20)
Towards an ontology for psychosis (2010) (19)
ICD-11 and SNOMED CT Common Ontology: Circulatory System (2014) (19)
Helping with a Humanly Impossible Task: Integrating Knowledge Based Systems into Clinical Care (1989) (19)
A Hybrid Architecture for a Preoperative Decision Support System Using a Rule Engine and a Reasoner on a Clinical Ontology (2009) (19)
Computer-based Patient Records (1996) (18)
Terminology and concept representation languages: where are we? (1999) (18)
Rules for sequential diagnosis. (1975) (18)
Integrating existing drug formulation terminologies into an HL7 standard classification using OpenGALEN (2001) (18)
Conceptual, Semantic and Information Models for Medicine (1995) (17)
Augmenting the Expressivity of the Ontology Pre-Processor Language (2008) (17)
A Linkable Identity Privacy Algorithm for HealthGrid (2005) (17)
Models and Inference Methods for Clinical Systems: A Principled Approach (2004) (17)
The SOFG Anatomy Entry List (SAEL): An Annotation Tool for Functional Genomics Data (2004) (17)
Designing User interfaces to Minimise Common Errors in Ontology Development: The CO-ODE and HyOntUse Projects (2004) (16)
Semantic Alignment between ICD-11 and SNOMED CT (2015) (16)
Editing OWL through Generated CNL (2009) (15)
Unlocking Medical Ontologies for Non-Ontology Experts (2011) (15)
ONTOLOGY-BASED CONVERGENCE OF MEDICAL TERMINOLOGIES: SNOMED CT AND ICD-11 (2012) (15)
DOPAMINE - A tool for visualizing clinical properties of generic drugs (2000) (15)
Semi-automatic Generation of a Patient Preoperative Knowledge-Base from a Legacy Clinical Database (2009) (14)
Towards an authentication middleware to support ubiquitous Web access (2004) (14)
The Development of CCAM: The New French Coding System of Clinical Procedures (2003) (14)
Rapid application design of an electronic clinical skills portfolio for undergraduate medical students (2005) (13)
Techniques for Segmenting Large Description Logic Ontologies (2005) (13)
What's in a code? Towards a Formal Account of the Relation of Ontologies and Coding Systems (2007) (13)
Attitudes and access to electronic exchange of information on occupational disease. (2004) (13)
Analysing Syntactic Regularities and Irregularities in SNOMED-CT (2012) (13)
Natural language processing tools for the computerised patient record: present and future (1996) (12)
Automated quality checks on repeat prescribing. (2003) (12)
Coding systems and classifications in healthcare: the link to the record. (1998) (12)
An Ontology driven collaborative development for biomedical terminologies: from the French CCAM to the Australian ICHI coding system (2006) (12)
Description logics in medical informatics (11)
A review of studies of decision-making in general practice. (1984) (11)
Achieving fine‐grained access control in virtual organizations (2007) (11)
Quality assurance of the content of a large DL-based terminology using mixed lexical and semantic criteria: experience with SNOMED CT (2011) (11)
AIM: a personal view of where I have been and where we might be going (2001) (11)
The State of Multi-User Ontology Engineering (2007) (11)
What is an ontology (2010) (10)
OntoVerbal: a Generic Tool and Practical Application to SNOMED CT (2013) (10)
The Description Logic Handbook: Medical Informatics (2007) (10)
An Analysis of Uncertainty in British General Practice: Implications of a Preliminary Survey (1989) (10)
What's in a Class? Lessons Learnt from the ICD - SNOMED CT Harmonisation (2014) (10)
OntoVerbal-M: a Multilingual Verbaliser for SNOMED CT (2011) (10)
Semantic Interoperability Deployment and Research Roadmap (2008) (10)
Inheritance of Drug Information (2000) (10)
Shedding Light on Patients' Problems: Integrating Knowledge Based Systems into Medical Practice (1990) (10)
Supporting a humanly impossible task: The clinical human computer environment (1990) (10)
Marking Up is Not Enough (1993) (9)
A Comprehensive Approach to Developing and Integrating Multilingual Classifications: GALEN's Classification Workbench (1998) (9)
A Heuristic Approach to Explain the Inconsistency in OWL Ontologies (2005) (9)
Granularity Scale & Collectivity : When size does and doesn ’ t matter (2005) (8)
Ontology building as a social-technical process : a case study (2008) (8)
Axioms & templates: distinctions & transformationsamongst ontologies, frames, & information models (2013) (8)
PEN&PAD (Geriatrics): a Collaborative Patient Record System for the shared care of the elderly. (1992) (8)
Assessing the Safety of Knowledge Patterns in OWL Ontologies (2010) (8)
What Causes Pneumonia? The Case for a Standard Semantics for "may" in OWL (2008) (8)
A Deployment and Research Roadmap for Semantic Interoperability: the EU SemanticHEALTH project (2008) (8)
Abstracting and Generalising the Foundational Model Anatomy ( FMA ) Ontology (2009) (7)
Using a Description Logic with Concept Inclusions (1996) (7)
Knowledge Driven Software and "Fractal Tailoring": Ontologies in development environments for clinical systems (2010) (7)
PEN&PAD: A Multi-Lingual Patient Care Workstation based on a Unified Representation of the Medical Record and Medical Terminology (1991) (6)
A Domain Specific Ontology Authoring Environment for a Clinical Documentation System (2014) (6)
OntoVerbal: a Protégé plugin for verbalising ontology classes (2012) (6)
Defaults, exceptions and ambiguity in a medical knowledge representation system. (1986) (6)
Representing ICD-11 JLMMS Using IHTSDO Representation Formalisms (2016) (6)
Data decay, significance and confidentiality: a time-oriented data-model for comprehensive care. (1981) (5)
Joining up health and bioinformatics: e-science meets e-health (2004) (5)
A Collaborative Biomedical Research System (2006) (5)
Testing headings for communicating the personal health record: comparison from the recipients’ perspective (1999) (5)
Formal Representations and Semantic Web Technologies (2014) (5)
Calculations in OWL (2008) (5)
Barriers to the use of OWL in Knowledge Driven Applications (2008) (5)
A Terminology Server for Integrating Clinical Information Systems : The GALEN Approach (1995) (5)
Representation of Part-Whole Relationships in SNOMED CT (2012) (5)
A Generic Software Framework for Building Hybrid Ontology-Backed Models for Driving Applications (2008) (5)
Plugging a scalable authentication framework into Shibboleth (2005) (5)
Supporting the use of the GALEN Intermediate Representation (1998) (4)
A Web-Based Tool for Development of a Common Ontology between ICD11 and SNOMED-CT (2014) (4)
What Should We Mean by 'An Electronic Medical Record'? (1991) (4)
Are Minicomputers Appropriate for Your Practice (1979) (4)
A Case Study of ICD-11 Anatomy Value Set Extraction from SNOMED CT (2011) (3)
Is the Application of SNOMED CT Concept Model sufficiently Quality Assured? (2017) (3)
A Consulting Room System with Added Value (1990) (3)
Interoperability of Data Models and Terminology Models : Issues with using the SNOMED CT terminology (2008) (3)
Identifying Ontology Design Styles with Metrics (2011) (3)
Faithfulness or Comparability (1996) (3)
Ontological Issues in using a Description Logic to Represent Medical Concepts : Part II-The GALEN High Level Schemas (2008) (3)
Building Modular Ontologies and Specifying Ontology Joining, Binding, Localizing and Programming Interfaces in Ontologies Implemented in OWL (2008) (3)
Art and Science – Problems and Solutions (1996) (3)
"Logal": Algorithmic Control Structures for Prolog (1983) (3)
Anatomy for Clinical Terminology (2008) (3)
Implications of Research on Clinical Decision-making for the Design of Decision Support Systems (1985) (2)
Do we need a Common Ontology between ICD 11 and SNOMED CT to ensure Seamless Re-Use and Semantic Interoperability? (2013) (2)
Inspecting regularities and irregularities in SNOMED-CT (2011) (2)
ICD-11 (JLMMS) and SCT Inter-Operation (2016) (2)
Medical Informatics Education at the University of Manchester (1997) (2)
Method Relations in biomedical ontologies (2005) (1)
Reusable Knowledge for Best Clinical Practices: Why We Have Difficulty Sharing and What We Can Do (2013) (1)
Feasibility and Reliability of Computerised Review of Long Term Prescribing (2002) (1)
Models of Meaning and Models of Use : Binding Terminology to the EHR – An Approach using OWL (2006) (1)
Knowledge Representation for Cooperative Medical Systems (1987) (1)
Literature and Logbook — Art and Science (1996) (1)
Medical Language and Terminologies (2007) (1)
The Pragmatics of Naive Database Enquiry (1995) (1)
Structuring meta knowledge—a knowledge representation system for cooperative systems (1988) (1)
European Semantic Web Conference 2009-Luigi Iannone, Alan Rector and robert Stevens. Embedding Knowledge Patterns into OWL (2012) (1)
Are microcomputers appropriate for your practice? (1979) (1)
Six questions on the construction of ontologies in biomedicine (2005) (1)
Public Health e-Labs: An ethical model and architecture for distributed epidemiology using healthcare records (2009) (1)
Analysing Syntactic Regularities and Irregularities in SNOMED-CT (2012) (1)
Building Hybrid Ontology-Backed Software Models (2012) (1)
Requirements for a Medical Workstation using User-Centred Design (1991) (1)
Introduction: Health informatics terminologies and related resources (2011) (1)
Higher Order Knowledge in Ontologies (2011) (1)
Compositional Models of Medical Concepts : Towards Use Independent Medical Terminology for Medical Records and Knowledge Based Systems (1994) (1)
Scrutinizing the Axiomatic Basis of SNOMED CT: How Confused is it by the Ambiguous Terminology Paradigm? (2017) (0)
What's a "disease"? Questions for applied ontologies of diseases (2015) (0)
Medical records and medical information in the U.K.--issues and prospects. (1979) (0)
A Des ription Logi Based S hema for the Classi ation of Medi al Data (1996) (0)
Scrutinizing SNOMED CT's Ability to Reconcile Clinical Language Ambiguities with an Ontology Representation (2018) (0)
Terminologiesand Terminology Servers for Inf ormation Envir onments (1997) (0)
generalisation Statements in Ontologies (2011) (0)
Predictive data entry in medical records (1992) (0)
Reasoning, and Has Been Widely Used for Implementing Several Applications in Ai. Our Desktop Agent Reasoning Management Agent Data Management Agent Problem Solvers Server Data-bases Server Network of Software Agents Health Care Information Systems Based on Cooperating Software Agents (2007) (0)
Joining up Health and BioInformatics: Removing the Barriers (2004) (0)
Alternative Interfaces for OWL Ontologies (2006) (0)
Metadata in Ontologies (2011) (0)
Research and development in expert systems V : proceedings of Expert Systems '88, the eighth annual Technical Conference of the British Computer Society Specialist Group on Expert Systems, Brighton, 12-15 December 1988 (1989) (0)
What's missing? DLs, OWL and the Ecology of Semantic Systems (2012) (0)
Privacy, Data Decay and the Long Term Medical Record (1982) (0)
DOPAMINE – A tool for visualising clinical properti es of generic drugs (2008) (0)
Representing medical concepts (1996) (0)
The GALEN High Level Ontology (2008) (0)
Use of OWL-based tools to aid message development and maintenance (2007) (0)
Online The Open University ’ s repository of research publications and other research outputs Editing OWL through generated CNL Conference Item (2016) (0)
Do ontologies work ? Barriers and Possibilities to Implement Ontologies in ( Health ) Information Systems (2007) (0)
Conceptual and linguistic knowledge in GALEN (1995) (0)
Types of Statement in an Ontology (2011) (0)
Users Are Always Right ... Even When They Are Wrong: Making Knowledge Representation Useful and Usable (2006) (0)
Connecting Healthcare with Biomedical and Post-Genomic Research (2005) (0)
The "Common Ontology" between ICD 11 and SNOMED CT to ensure semantic interoperability (2014) (0)
A Survey of Developments in Medical Records and Information Systems in the United Kingdom (1978) (0)
2 Locus and Partonomy – The Basis of Clinical Reasoning about Anatomy (2007) (0)
Clinical Terminology and Clinical Applications: Mind the gap (1999) (0)
Harmonization of ICD-11 and SNOMED CT - Not just mapping! Practical and Theoretical Lessons & Benefits to Users and Implementers (2015) (0)
Semantic Interoperability Deployment and Research Roadmap [79 pages] (2007) (0)
What causes pneumonia? Kinds of Knowledge and the Case for Hybrid Representations (2015) (0)
A linkable privacy algorithm for HealthGrid. (2005) (0)

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