SIABO - Semantic Information Access through Biomedical Ontologies

Troels Andreasen, Henrik Bulskov, Tine Lassen, Sine Zambach, Per Anker Jensen, Bodil Nistrup Madsen, Hanne Erdman Thomsen, Jørgen Fischer Nilsson, Bartlomiej Antoni Szymczak

2009

Abstract

The scientific aim of the project presented in this paper is to provide an approach to representing, organizing, and accessing conceptual content of biomedical texts using a formal ontology. The ontology is based on UMLS resources supplemented with domain ontologies developed in the project. The approach introduces the notion of ‘generative ontologies’, i.e., ontologies providing increasingly specialized concepts reflecting the phrase structure of natural language. Furthermore, we propose a novel so-called ‘ontological semantics’ which maps noun phrases from texts and queries into nodes in the generative ontology. This enables an advanced form of data mining of texts identifying paraphrases and concept relations and measuring distances between key concepts in texts. Thus, the project gains its identity in its attempt to provide a formal underpinning of conceptual similarity or relatedness of meaning.

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Andreasen T., Bulskov H., Lassen T., Zambach S., Anker Jensen P., Nistrup Madsen B., Erdman Thomsen H., Fischer Nilsson J. and Antoni Szymczak B. (2009). SIABO - Semantic Information Access through Biomedical Ontologies . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2009) ISBN 978-989-674-012-2, pages 171-176. DOI: 10.5220/0002297801710176


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@conference{keod09,
author={Troels Andreasen and Henrik Bulskov and Tine Lassen and Sine Zambach and Per Anker Jensen and Bodil Nistrup Madsen and Hanne Erdman Thomsen and Jørgen Fischer Nilsson and Bartlomiej Antoni Szymczak},
title={SIABO - Semantic Information Access through Biomedical Ontologies},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={171-176},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002297801710176},
isbn={978-989-674-012-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2009)
TI - SIABO - Semantic Information Access through Biomedical Ontologies
SN - 978-989-674-012-2
AU - Andreasen T.
AU - Bulskov H.
AU - Lassen T.
AU - Zambach S.
AU - Anker Jensen P.
AU - Nistrup Madsen B.
AU - Erdman Thomsen H.
AU - Fischer Nilsson J.
AU - Antoni Szymczak B.
PY - 2009
SP - 171
EP - 176
DO - 10.5220/0002297801710176