Alan L. Rector

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1983-2019
Publications (10 Years): 12

Top Venues

MedInfo

MIE

AMIA

ICBO

Publications

Alan L. Rector, Stefan Schulz, Jean Marie Rodrigues, Christopher G. Chute, Harold Solbrig
On beyond Gruber: "Ontologies" in today's biomedical information systems and the limits of OWL. J. Biomed. Informatics X 2 (2019)
Jean Marie Rodrigues, Stefan Schulz, Bassim Mizen, Béatrice Trombert, Alan L. Rector
Scrutinizing SNOMED CT's Ability to Reconcile Clinical Language Ambiguities with an Ontology Representation. MIE (2018)
Jean Marie Rodrigues, Stefan Schulz, Bassim Mizen, Alan L. Rector, sofyane Serir
Is the Application of SNOMED CT Concept Model sufficiently Quality Assured? AMIA (2017)
Stefan Schulz, Jean Marie Rodrigues, Alan L. Rector, Christopher G. Chute
Interface Terminologies, Reference Terminologies and Aggregation Terminologies: A Strategy for Better Integration. MedInfo (2017)
Jean Marie Rodrigues, Stefan Schulz, Alan L. Rector
Scrutinizing the Axiomatic Basis of SNOMED CT: How Confused is it by the Ambiguous Terminology Paradigm? ICBO (2017)
Marzouk Mamou, Alan L. Rector, Stefan Schulz, James R. Campbell, Harold Solbrig, Jean Marie Rodrigues
ICD-11 (JLMMS) and SCT Inter-Operation. eHealth (2016)
Marzouk Mamou, Alan L. Rector, Stefan Schulz, James R. Campbell, Harold R. Solbrig, Jean Marie Rodrigues
Representing ICD-11 JLMMS Using IHTSDO Representation Formalisms. MIE (2016)
Alan L. Rector
What's a "disease"? Questions for applied ontologies of diseases. Appl. Ontology 10 (2) (2015)
Alan L. Rector, James R. Campbell, Bedirhan Üstün, Christopher G. Chute, Harold R. Solbrig
Harmonization of ICD-11 and SNOMED CT - Not just mapping! Practical and Theoretical Lessons & Benefits to Users and Implementers. AMIA (2015)
Jean Marie Rodrigues, David J. Robinson, Vincenzo Della Mea, James R. Campbell, Alan L. Rector, Stefan Schulz, Hazel Brear, Bedirhan Üstün, Kent A. Spackman, Christopher G. Chute, Jane Millar, Harold R. Solbrig, Kristina Brand Persson
Semantic Alignment between ICD-11 and SNOMED CT. MedInfo (2015)
Alan L. Rector
What causes pneumonia? Kinds of Knowledge and the Case for Hybrid Representations. AMIA (2015)
Jonathan M. Mortensen, Evan P. Minty, Michael Januszyk, Timothy E. Sweeney, Alan L. Rector, Natalya Fridman Noy, Mark A. Musen
Using the wisdom of the crowds to find critical errors in biomedical ontologies: a study of SNOMED CT. J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc. 22 (3) (2015)
Leo Obrst, Michael Grüninger, Ken Baclawski, Mike Bennett, Dan Brickley, Gary Berg-Cross, Pascal Hitzler, Krzysztof Janowicz, Christine Kapp, Oliver Kutz, Christoph Lange, Anatoly Levenchuk, Francesca Quattri, Alan L. Rector, Todd Schneider, Simon Spero, Anne E. Thessen, Marcela Vegetti, Amanda Vizedom, Andrea Westerinen, Matthew West, Peter Yim
Semantic Web and Big Data meets Applied Ontology - The Ontology Summit 2014. Appl. Ontology 9 (2) (2014)
Vincenzo Della Mea, Omar Vuattolo, Bedirhan Üstün, Alan L. Rector, Stefan Schulz, Jean Marie Rodrigues, Kent A. Spackman, David J. Robinson, Jane Millar, James R. Campbell, Christopher G. Chute, Harold R. Solbrig, Kristina Brand Persson
A Web-Based Tool for Development of a Common Ontology between ICD11 and SNOMED-CT. ICHI (2014)
Jean Marie Rodrigues, Stefan Schulz, Alan L. Rector, Kent A. Spackman, Jane Millar, James R. Campbell, Bedirhan Üstün, Christopher G. Chute, Harold R. Solbrig, Vincenzo Della Mea, Kristina Brand Persson
ICD-11 and SNOMED CT Common Ontology: Circulatory System. MIE (2014)
Matthew Horridge, Sebastian Brandt, Bijan Parsia, Alan L. Rector
A Domain Specific Ontology Authoring Environment for a Clinical Documentation System. CBMS (2014)
Stefan Schulz, Jean Marie Rodrigues, Alan L. Rector, Kent A. Spackman, James R. Campbell, Bedirhan Üstün, Christopher G. Chute, Harold R. Solbrig, Vincenzo Della Mea, Jane Millar, Kristina Brand Persson
What's in a Class? Lessons Learnt from the ICD - SNOMED CT Harmonisation. MIE (2014)
Stefan Schulz, Catalina Martínez-Costa, Daniel Karlsson, Ronald Cornet, Mathias Brochhausen, Alan L. Rector
An Ontological Analysis of Reference in Health Record Statements. FOIS (2014)
Robert A. Greenes, Mor Peleg, Alan L. Rector, Jerome A. Osheroff
Reusable Knowledge for Best Clinical Practices: Why We Have Difficulty Sharing and What We Can Do. MedInfo (2013)
Shao Fen Liang, Donia Scott, Robert Stevens, Alan L. Rector
OntoVerbal: a Generic Tool and Practical Application to SNOMED CT. CoRR (2013)
Alan L. Rector
Axioms & templates: distinctions & transformationsamongst ontologies, frames, & information models. K-CAP (2013)
Jean Marie Rodrigues, Stefan Schulz, Alan L. Rector, Kent A. Spackman, Bedirhan Üstün, Christopher G. Chute, Vincenzo Della Mea, Jane Millar, Kristina Brand Persson
Sharing Ontology between ICD 11 and SNOMED CT will enable Seamless Re-use and Semantic Interoperability. MedInfo (2013)
Jean Marie Rodrigues, Stefan Schulz, Alan L. Rector, Kent A. Spackman, Bedirhan Üstün, Christopher G. Chute, Vincenzo Della Mea, Jane Millar, Kristina Brand Persson, Dipak Kalra
Do we need a Common Ontology between ICD 11 and SNOMED CT to ensure Seamless Re-Use and Semantic Interoperability? MedInfo (2013)
Alan L. Rector
What's missing? DLs, OWL and the Ecology of Semantic Systems. Description Logics (2012)
Shao Fen Liang, Robert Stevens, Donia Scott, Alan L. Rector
OntoVerbal: a Protégé plugin for verbalising ontology classes. ICBO (2012)
Patrice Seyed, Alan L. Rector, Uli Sattler, Bijan Parsia, Robert Stevens
Representation of Part-Whole Relationships in SNOMED CT. ICBO (2012)
Eleni Mikroyannidi, Robert Stevens, Luigi Iannone, Alan L. Rector
Analysing Syntactic Regularities and Irregularities in SNOMED-CT. J. Biomed. Semant. 3 (2012)
Alan L. Rector, Luigi Iannone
Lexically suggest, logically define: Quality assurance of the use of qualifiers and expected results of post-coordination in SNOMED CT. J. Biomed. Informatics 45 (2) (2012)
Stefan Schulz, Alan L. Rector, Jean Marie Rodrigues, Kent A. Spackman
Competing Interpretations of Disorder Codes in SNOMED CT and ICD. AMIA (2012)
Alan L. Rector, Sebastian Brandt, Nick Drummond, Matthew Horridge, Colin Puleston, Robert Stevens
Engineering use cases for modular development of ontologies in OWL. Appl. Ontology 7 (2) (2012)
Eleni Mikroyannidi, Luigi Iannone, Robert Stevens, Alan L. Rector
Inspecting regularities and irregularities in SNOMED-CT. SWAT4LS (2011)
Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, Alan L. Rector, Martin Hurrell
Using OWL ontologies for adaptive patient information modelling and preoperative clinical decision support. Knowl. Inf. Syst. 29 (2) (2011)
Eleni Mikroyannidi, Luigi Iannone, Robert Stevens, Alan L. Rector
Inspecting Regularities in Ontology Design Using Clustering. ISWC (1) (2011)
Alan L. Rector, Luigi Iannone, Robert Stevens
Quality assurance of the content of a large DL-based terminology using mixed lexical and semantic criteria: experience with SNOMED CT. K-CAP (2011)
Alan L. Rector, Sam Brandt, Thomas Schneider
Getting the foot out of the pelvis: modeling problems affecting use of SNOMED CT hierarchies in practical applications. J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc. 18 (4) (2011)
Shao Fen Liang, Donia Scott, Robert Stevens, Alan L. Rector
Unlocking Medical Ontologies for Non-Ontology Experts. BioNLP@ACL (2011)
Guoqian Jiang, Harold R. Solbrig, Robert J. G. Chalmers, Kent A. Spackman, Alan L. Rector, Christopher G. Chute
A Case Study of ICD-11 Anatomy Value Set Extraction from SNOMED CT. ICBO (2011)
Shao Fen Liang, Robert Stevens, Donia Scott, Alan L. Rector
Automatic Verbalisation of SNOMED Classes Using OntoVerbal. AIME (2011)
Fennie Liang, Robert Stevens, Alan L. Rector
OntoVerbal-M: a Multilingual Verbaliser for SNOMED CT. MSW (2011)
Luigi Iannone, Ignazio Palmisano, Alan L. Rector, Robert Stevens
Assessing the Safety of Knowledge Patterns in OWL Ontologies. ESWC (1) (2010)
Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, Alan L. Rector, Martin Hurrell
Experience of Using OWL Ontologies for Automated Inference of Routine Pre-operative Screening Tests. ISWC (2) (2010)
Jesualdo Tomás Fernández-Breis, Luigi Iannone, Ignazio Palmisano, Alan L. Rector, Robert Stevens
Enriching the Gene Ontology via the Dissection of Labels Using the Ontology Pre-processor Language. EKAW (2010)
Alan L. Rector
Knowledge Driven Software and "Fractal Tailoring": Ontologies in development environments for clinical systems. FOIS (2010)
Jay (Subbarao) Kola, Jonathan Harris, Stephen M. Lawrie, Alan L. Rector, Carole A. Goble, Maryann E. Martone
Towards an ontology for psychosis. Cogn. Syst. Res. 11 (1) (2010)
Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, Alan L. Rector, Martin Hurrell
A Hybrid Architecture for a Preoperative Decision Support System Using a Rule Engine and a Reasoner on a Clinical Ontology. RR (2009)
Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, Alan L. Rector, Martin Hurrell
Semi-automatic Generation of a Patient Preoperative Knowledge-Base from a Legacy Clinical Database. OTM Conferences (2) (2009)
Richard Power, Robert Stevens, Donia Scott, Alan L. Rector
Editing OWL through Generated CNL. CNL (Pre-Proceedings) (2009)
Alan L. Rector, Rahil Qamar, T. Marley
Binding ontologies and coding systems to electronic health records and messages. Appl. Ontology 4 (1) (2009)
Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, Alan L. Rector, Martin Hurrell
Development of an ontology for a preoperative risk assessment clinical decision support system. CBMS (2009)
Luigi Iannone, Alan L. Rector, Robert Stevens
Embedding Knowledge Patterns into OWL. ESWC (2009)
Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, Alan L. Rector, Martin Hurrell
Gathering Precise Patient Medical History with an Ontology-Driven Adaptive Questionnaire. CBMS (2008)
Colin Puleston, James A. Cunningham, Alan L. Rector
A Generic Software Framework for Building Hybrid Ontology-Backed Models for Driving Applications. OWLED (Spring) (2008)
Alan L. Rector, Sebastian Brandt, Jay Kola
Why do it the hard way? The Case for an Expressive Description Logic for SNOMED. KR-MED (2008)
Erik Sundvall, Rahil Qamar, Mikael Nyström, Mattias Forss, Håkan Petersson, Daniel Karlsson, Hans Åhlfeldt, Alan L. Rector
Integration of tools for binding archetypes to SNOMED CT. BMC Medical Informatics Decis. Mak. 8 (S-1) (2008)
Mikel Egaña, Alan L. Rector, Robert Stevens, Erick Antezana
Applying Ontology Design Patterns in Bio-ontologies. EKAW (2008)
Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, Alan L. Rector, Martin Hurrell
Using Ontologies for an Intelligent Patient Modelling, Adaptation and Management System. OTM Conferences (2) (2008)
Alan L. Rector, Robert Stevens
Barriers to the use of OWL in Knowledge Driven Applications. OWLED (2008)
Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, Alan L. Rector, Martin Hurrell
Ontology-Driven Adaptive Medical Information Collection System. ISMIS (2008)
Luigi Iannone, Mikel Egaña Aranguren, Alan L. Rector, Robert Stevens
Augmenting the Expressivity of the Ontology Pre-Processor Language. OWLED (2008)
Alan L. Rector, Robert Stevens, Nick Drummond
What Causes Pneumonia? The Case for a Standard Semantics for "may" in OWL. OWLED (2008)
Colin Puleston, Bijan Parsia, James A. Cunningham, Alan L. Rector
Integrating Object-Oriented and Ontological Representations: A Case Study in Java and OWL. ISWC (2008)
Pierre Lewalle, Jean Marie Rodrigues, Pieter E. Zanstra, Bedirhan Üstün, Dipak Kalra, György Surján, Alan L. Rector, Veli N. Stroetmann, Martti Virtanen
A Deployment and Research Roadmap for Semantic Interoperability: the EU SemanticHEALTH project. MIE (2008)
Luigi Iannone, Alan L. Rector
Calculations in OWL. OWLED (2008)
Rahil Qamar Siddiqui, Jay Kola, Alan L. Rector
Interoperability of Data Models and Terminology Models : Issues with using the SNOMED CT terminology. KR-MED (2008)
Alan L. Rector, Sebastian Brandt
Viewpoint Paper: Why Do It the Hard Way? The Case for an Expressive Description Logic for SNOMED. J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc. 15 (6) (2008)
Alan L. Rector, Matthew Horridge, Nick Drummond
Building Modular Ontologies and Specifying Ontology Joining, Binding, Localizing and Programming Interfaces in Ontologies Implemented in OWL. AAAI Spring Symposium: Symbiotic Relationships between Semantic Web and Knowledge Engineering (2008)
Alan L. Rector
What's in a code? Towards a Formal Account of the Relation of Ontologies and Coding Systems. MedInfo (2007)
Julian Seidenberg, Alan L. Rector
The State of Multi-User Ontology Engineering. WoMO (2007)
Julian Seidenberg, Alan L. Rector
A methodology for asynchronous multi-user editing of semantic web ontologies. K-CAP (2007)
Robert Stevens, Mikel Egaña Aranguren, Katy Wolstencroft, Ulrike Sattler, Nick Drummond, Matthew Horridge, Alan L. Rector
Using OWL to model biological knowledge. Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud. 65 (7) (2007)
Rahil Qamar, Alan L. Rector
Semantic Issues in Integrating Data from Different Models to Achieve Data Interoperability. MedInfo (2007)
Rahil Qamar, Jay (Subbarao) Kola, Alan L. Rector
Unambiguous data modeling to ensure higher accuracy term binding to clinical terminologies. AMIA (2007)
Ning Zhang, Li Yao, Aleksandra Nenadic, Jay Chin, Carole A. Goble, Alan L. Rector, David W. Chadwick, Sassa Otenko, Qi Shi
Achieving fine-grained access control in virtual organizations. Concurr. Comput. Pract. Exp. 19 (9) (2007)
Alan L. Rector, Jeremy Rogers
Ontological and Practical Issues in Using a Description Logic to Represent Medical Concept Systems: Experience from GALEN. Reasoning Web (2006)
Yimin Wang, York Sure, Robert Stevens, Alan L. Rector
Knowledge Elicitation Plug-In for Protégé: Card Sorting and Laddering. ASWC (2006)
Alan L. Rector, Jeremy Rogers, Thomas Bittner
Granularity, scale and collectivity: When size does and does not matter. J. Biomed. Informatics 39 (3) (2006)
Jeremy Rogers, Colin Puleston, Alan L. Rector
The CLEF Chronicle: Patient Histories Derived from Electronic Health Records. ICDE Workshops (2006)
Nick Drummond, Alan L. Rector, Robert Stevens, Georgina Moulton, Matthew Horridge, Hai Wang, Julian Seidenberg
Putting OWL in Order: Patterns for Sequences in OWL. OWLED (2006)
Adel Taweel, Alan L. Rector, Jeremy Rogers
A Collaborative Biomedical Research System. J. Univers. Comput. Sci. 12 (1) (2006)
Matthew Horridge, Nick Drummond, John Goodwin, Alan L. Rector, Robert Stevens, Hai Wang
The Manchester OWL Syntax. OWLED (2006)
Alan L. Rector, Rahil Qamar, T. Marley
Binding Ontologies & Coding Systems to Electronic Health Records and Messages. KR-MED (2006)
Alan L. Rector
Users Are Always Right ... Even When They Are Wrong: Making Knowledge Representation Useful and Usable. KR (2006)
Julian Seidenberg, Alan L. Rector
Web ontology segmentation: analysis, classification and use. WWW (2006)
Jean Marie Rodrigues, Alan L. Rector, Pieter E. Zanstra, Robert H. Baud, Kerry Innes, Jeremy Rogers, Anne-Marie Rassinoux, Stefan Schulz, Béatrice Trombert Paviot, Huib ten Napel, Lucienne Clavel, Egbert J. van der Haring, Ceu Mateus
An Ontology driven collaborative development for biomedical terminologies: from the French CCAM to the Australian ICHI coding system. MIE (2006)
Julian Seidenberg, Alan L. Rector
Representing Transitive Propagation in OWL. ER (2006)
Hai Wang, Matthew Horridge, Alan L. Rector, Nick Drummond, Julian Seidenberg
Debugging OWL-DL Ontologies: A Heuristic Approach. ISWC (2005)
Ning Zhang, Li Yao, Jay Chin, Aleksandra Nenadic, A. McNab, Alan L. Rector, Carole A. Goble, Qi Shi
Plugging a Scalable Authentication Framework into Shibboleth. WETICE (2005)
Holger Knublauch, Matthew Horridge, Mark A. Musen, Alan L. Rector, Robert Stevens, Nick Drummond, Phillip W. Lord, Natalya Fridman Noy, Julian Seidenberg, Hai Wang
The Protege OWL Experience. OWLED (2005)
Ning Zhang, Alan L. Rector, Iain E. Buchan, Qi Shi, Dipak Kalra, Jeremy Rogers, Carole A. Goble, Steve Walker, David Ingram, Peter D. Singleton
A Linkable Identity Privacy Algorithm for HealthGrid. HealthGrid (2005)
Tim Dornan, Catherine Lee, Adam Stopford, Liam Hosie, Neil Maredia, Alan L. Rector
Rapid application design of an electronic clinical skills portfolio for undergraduate medical students. Comput. Methods Programs Biomed. 78 (1) (2005)
Alan L. Rector, Jeremy Rogers, Adel Taweel
Models and Inference Methods for Clinical Systems: A Principled Approach. MedInfo (2004)
Holger Knublauch, Mark A. Musen, Alan L. Rector
Editing Description Logic Ontologies with the Protégé OWL Plugin. Description Logics (2004)
Ning Zhang, Jay Chin, Alan L. Rector, Carole A. Goble, Y. Li
Towards an Authentication Middleware to Support Ubiquitous Web Access. COMPSAC Workshops (2004)
Alan L. Rector, Nick Drummond, Matthew Horridge, Jeremy Rogers, Holger Knublauch, Robert Stevens, Hai Wang, Chris Wroe
OWL Pizzas: Practical Experience of Teaching OWL-DL: Common Errors & Common Patterns. EKAW (2004)
Alan L. Rector
Defaults, Context, and Knowledge: Alternatives for OWL-Indexed Knowledge Bases. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (2004)
Alan L. Rector
Modularisation of domain ontologies implemented in description logics and related formalisms including OWL. K-CAP (2003)
Alan L. Rector, Jeremy Rogers, Pieter E. Zanstra, Egbert J. van der Haring
OpenGALEN: Open Source Medical Terminology and Tools. AMIA (2003)
Peter L. Elkin, Steven H. Brown, Michael J. Lincoln, Michael A. Hogarth, Alan L. Rector
A formal representation for messages containing compositional expressions. Int. J. Medical Informatics 71 (2-3) (2003)
Alan L. Rector
Analysis of propagation along transitive roles: Formalisation of the GALEN experience with Medical Ontologies. Description Logics (2002)
Alan L. Rector, Jeremy Rogers, Angus Roberts, Chris Wroe
Scale and context: issues in ontologies to link health- and bio-informatics. AMIA (2002)

Alan L. Rector.css-eqlu8i{font-size:small;padding-left:4px;}

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Top Topics

Top Venues

Alan L. Rector