Structure a Knowledge Based Survey System of Traditional Chinese Medicine Literature for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

[[abstract]]Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is a common psychiatric disease in childhood. There are no reasons to prove the occurrence of this disease and no effective treatments. Since 1990s, there are some advantages have proved that Traditional Chinese medicine has great cure and few side effects in many experiments. The traditional Chinese medicine books provide precious clinical experience for reference. There are so much information and books that need to be integrated for easy search and exploitation by information technology. Thus building up a knowledge base for Traditional Chinese medicine is a critical work. In this thesis, we integrate more than ten thousand related Traditional Chinese medicine data in the books of traditional Chinese medical science. The research adopts the concepts of knowledge organization of Topic Maps to structure the database and integrate with conveniences of update in time. We build up one knowledge base system that includes symptoms and prescriptions of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and provides classifiable catalogues and searching interface for the key words. The clear and explicit classification system, with the interface of topic search, can guide the users to search and obtain useful research data quickly for objective and complete reference