Paper Info
Title
Semi-Automated Evaluation of Biomedical Ontologies for the Biobanking Domain Based on Competency Questions.
Abstract
Background: Biosample collections and biobank information systems have become a key enabler for medical research. Therefore it is important to identify potentially relevant ontologies to semantically enrich information related to the biobanking domain. Objectives: We present a three-stage semi-automated evaluation approach which allows identifying relevant ontologies for the biobanking domain based on competency questions. Methods: After identifying candidate biobanking ontologies (Stage 1) and competency questions (Stage 2), a six-step lexical evaluation approach, which assesses the coverage of concepts, properties or instances defined by competency questions is suggested and described (Stage 3). Results: We were able to perform a proof-of-concept evaluation of the OMIABIS ontology using our proposed three-stage approach together with a sample competency question. Conclusion: Our evaluation approach allows a swift evaluation of candidate ontology entities based on a search for higher hierarchy key terms that exist in comprehensive medical vocabularies in order to state the usability of specific ontologies for the biobanking domain.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.3233/978-1-61499-524-1-65
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Biological Specimen Bank,Biomedical Ontologies,Evaluation,Natural Language Processing
Biobank,Data science,Data mining,Competence (human resources),Open Biomedical Ontologies,Computer science,Knowledge management
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
212
0926-9630
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Philipp Hofer100.68
Sabrina B. Neururer211.04
Helga Hauffe300.68
Thomas Insam400.34
Anette Zeilner500.34
Georg Göbel6155.64