Importing Ontologies with Hidden Content

Computational Proteomics

计算机科学;物理学

Bernardo Cuenca Grau ; Boris Motik

Others  :  http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-477/paper_57.pdf
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学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

The Web Ontology Language (OWL) and its revision OWL 2 are widely used ontology languages whose formal underpinnings are given by description logics (DLs). OWL ontologies are used, for example, in several countries to describe electronic patient records (EPR). Patients’ data typically involves descriptionsof human anatomy, medical conditions, drugs, and so on. These domains have been described inwell-established reference ontologies such SNOMED-CT and GALEN. In order to save resources, increase interoperability between applications, and rely on experts’ knowledge, an EPR application should preferablyreuse these reference ontologies. For example, assume that a reference ontology K_h describes concepts such as the “ventricular septum defect.” An EPR application might reuse the concepts and roles from K_h to define its own ontology K_v of concepts such as “patients having a ventricular septum defect.” It is generally accepted that ontology reuse should be modular—that is, the axioms of K_v should not affect the meaning of the symbols reused from K_h [1, 2].[first paragraph]