POPULATING BIOMEDICAL ONTOLOGIES FROM NATURAL LANGUAGE TEXTS

Juana Maria Ruiz-Martinez, Rafael Valencia-García, Rodrigo Martínez-Béjar, Achim Hoffmann

2010

Abstract

Ontology population is a knowledge acquisition activity that relies on (semi-) automatic methods to transform unstructured, semi-structured and structured data sources into instance data. In this work, a semantic-role based process for ontology population is presented that provides a suitable framework for textual knowledge acquisition in the biological domain. In particular, with our approach, a given ontology can be enriched by adding instances gathered from biological natural language texts. Our system’s modular architecture provides a greater versatility than current approaches in the mentioned domain, as the process of ontology population is not directly dependent on the linguistic rules developed from the corpus.

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Maria Ruiz-Martinez J., Valencia-García R., Martínez-Béjar R. and Hoffmann A. (2010). POPULATING BIOMEDICAL ONTOLOGIES FROM NATURAL LANGUAGE TEXTS . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-29-4, pages 27-36. DOI: 10.5220/0003065000270036


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@conference{keod10,
author={Juana Maria Ruiz-Martinez and Rafael Valencia-García and Rodrigo Martínez-Béjar and Achim Hoffmann},
title={POPULATING BIOMEDICAL ONTOLOGIES FROM NATURAL LANGUAGE TEXTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={27-36},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003065000270036},
isbn={978-989-8425-29-4},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2010)
TI - POPULATING BIOMEDICAL ONTOLOGIES FROM NATURAL LANGUAGE TEXTS
SN - 978-989-8425-29-4
AU - Maria Ruiz-Martinez J.
AU - Valencia-García R.
AU - Martínez-Béjar R.
AU - Hoffmann A.
PY - 2010
SP - 27
EP - 36
DO - 10.5220/0003065000270036