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The Data Dictionary: Limiting the Domain of the Model

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Knowledge Engineering in Health Informatics

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The data dictionary of an expert system is the component that describes all the terms known to the system. In a diagnostic expert system, the data dictionary is the set of diseases and disease manifestations (i.e., symptoms, signs, laboratory results, radiological results, and special procedures) across all the diseases represented in the knowledge base.

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Warner, H.R., Sorenson, D.K., Bouhaddou, O. (1997). The Data Dictionary: Limiting the Domain of the Model. In: Knowledge Engineering in Health Informatics. Computers and Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1822-7_4

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