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CBMS
2007
IEEE
16 years 26 days ago
Merging Healthcare Ontologies: Inconsistency Tolerance and Implementation Issues
A major challenge for ontology integration is to deal with inconsistencies. Existing merging tools are based on classical logic and are forced to avoid inconsistencies (to prevent...
Fahim T. Imam, Wendy MacCaull, Margaret Ann Kenned...
LRE
2006
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15 years 6 months ago
A multilingual ontology for infectious disease surveillance: rationale, design and challenges
A lack of surveillance system infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region is seen as hindering the global control of rapidly spreading infectious diseases such as the recent avian H5...
Nigel Collier, Ai Kawazoe, Lihua Jin, Mika Shigema...
SEMWEB
2007
Springer
16 years 19 days ago
Matching Patient Records to Clinical Trials Using Ontologies
Abstract. This paper describes a large case study that explores the applicability of ontology reasoning to problems in the medical domain. We investigate whether it is possible to ...
Chintan Patel, James J. Cimino, Julian Dolby, Achi...
SEMWEB
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Reasoning in Metamodeling Enabled Ontologies
Ontologies are expected to play an important role in many application domains, as well as in software engineering in general. One problem with using ontologies within software engi...
Nophadol Jekjantuk, Gerd Gröner, Jeff Z. Pan
ICADL
2003
Springer
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15 years 11 months ago
Ontology Learning for Medical Digital Libraries
Ontologies play an important role in the Semantic Web as well as in digital library and knowledge portal applications. This project seeks to develop an automatic method to enrich e...
Chew-Hung Lee, Jin-Cheon Na, Christopher S. G. Kho...