Infrastructure for dynamic knowledge integration--automated biomedical ontology extension using textual resources

J Biomed Inform. 2008 Oct;41(5):816-28. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2008.06.003. Epub 2008 Jul 24.

Abstract

We present a novel ontology integration technique that explicitly takes the dynamics and data-intensiveness of e-health and biomedicine application domains into account. Changing and growing knowledge, possibly contained in unstructured natural language resources, is handled by application of cutting-edge Semantic Web technologies. In particular, semi-automatic integration of ontology learning results into a manually developed ontology is employed. This integration bases on automatic negotiation of agreed alignments, inconsistency resolution and natural language generation methods. Their novel combination alleviates the end-user effort in the incorporation of new knowledge to large extent. This allows for efficient application in many practical use cases, as we show in the paper.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Biomedical Research / methods
  • Database Management Systems*
  • Humans
  • Information Dissemination / methods
  • Information Storage and Retrieval / methods
  • Internet / organization & administration
  • Medical Informatics Computing*
  • Natural Language Processing*
  • Public Health Informatics / methods
  • Systems Integration
  • Vocabulary, Controlled