Title
An Approach for Learning Expressive Ontologies in Medical Domain
Abstract
The access to medical information (journals, blogs, web-pages, dictionaries, and texts) has been increased due to availability of many digital media. In particular, finding an appropriate structure that represents the information contained in texts is not a trivial task. One of the structures for modeling the knowledge are ontologies. An ontology refers to a conceptualization of a specific domain of knowledge. Ontologies are especially useful because they support the exchange and sharing of information as well as reasoning tasks. The usage of ontologies in medicine is mainly focussed in the representation and organization of medical terminologies. Ontology learning techniques have emerged as a set of techniques to get ontologies from unstructured information. This paper describes a new ontology learning approach that consists of a method for the acquisition of concepts and its corresponding taxonomic relations, where also axioms disjointWith and equivalentClass are learned from text without human intervention. The source of knowledge involves files about medical domain. Our approach is divided into two stages, the first part corresponds to discover hierarchical relations and the second part to the axiom extraction. Our automatic ontology learning approach shows better results compared against previous work, giving rise to more expressive ontologies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/s10916-015-0261-z
Journal of Medical Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Ontology, Taxonomic relations, Axioms, Medical dataset, Disease
Ontology (information science),Ontology-based data integration,Data mining,Process ontology,Computer science,Conceptualization,IDEF5,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Upper ontology,Ontology components,Ontology learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
39
8
1573-689X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
16
0.40
30
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ana B. Rios-Alvarado1286.51
Ivan López-arévalo22914.56
Edgar Tello-Leal3425.70
Victor Sosa-sosa45013.57