Compositionality: An Implementation Guide

Estimating and Analysing Coordination in Medical Terminologies

“…Term composition [6], [7] or as it is more recently called, (pre-/post-) coordination [8], [9] in medical terminologies has been a concern for developers of standard terminologies [10] and end-users [11] alike. For example, end users can struggle with post-coordination [11], but precoordination brings its challenges during development and maintenance and can lead to exponential explosion of the terminology size [7], which can make it hard to identify the correct term to use.…”