[Corpora-List] Patent application for "Referent tracking of portions of reality"

[Ken Litkowski]

  On 9/3/2010 4:26 PM, John F. Sowa wrote:
> For example, look at the last sentence quoted below:  "By linking
> the concepts in the ontology to the appropriate codes, the system
> is able to annotate free text documents with these codes as the
> documents are being indexed."  If the "inventors" add this as a
> claim, anybody who annotates documents with codes could be sued.
What is particularly egregious about the claims, to those familiar with 
medical informatics, is that it looks like it was taken directly from 
the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). This, of course, was paid 
for by all Americans (and probably by a lot of non-Americans). Thus, for 
example, making use of its public availability, I have posted the UMLS 
semantic relations hierarchy 
<http://www.clres.com/semrels/umls_relation_list.html>. In addition, 
what my posting represents, is only the tip of the wonderful semantic 
network and elaborate construction of medical terminology from over 60 
sources.

     Ken

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