Authors:
David Mendes
1
;
Irene Rodrigues
1
and
Carlos Fernandes Baeta
2
Affiliations:
1
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
;
2
Hospital José Maria Grande, Portugal
Keyword(s):
OGCP, OGMS, CPR, Ontological Realism, SOAP, Clinical Practice Knowledge, OWL.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Data Engineering
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Acquisition
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge Representation
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Natural Language Processing
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Ontology Engineering
;
Ontology Matching and Alignment
;
Pattern Recognition
;
Semantic Web
;
Soft Computing
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
The Ontology for General Medical Science (OGMS) complemented with the Computer-Based Patient Record
Ontology (CPR)is based on several upper ontologies which may have formal ontological relations according
to the OBO Foundry principles. These ontologies accordant to the underlying Ontological Realism render
a structure with reasoning capabilities that reach further than those possible with logical formalisms alone.
We propose to extend carefully the OGMS taking into account the diverse ontological relations found in the
recently proposed Basic Formal Ontology V2, FMA and SNOMED-CT as foundational ontologies in order to
extract axioms for ontology enrichment from natural language text. With these cautions in mind, using careful instantiation we improve largely the reasoning capabilities over the resulting OWL knowledge base. Most of the clinical practice knowledge is currently recorded in SOAP text format. We extend the OGMS with the CPR structure into an Ontology for General Clinical
Practice (OGCP) for the generation of adequate ontologically rich axioms from the SOAP text segments.
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