Acquiring knowledge has long been the major bottleneck preventing the rapid spread of AI systems. Manual approaches are slow and costly. Machine-learning approaches have limitatio...
Background: A growing demand for tools to assist the building and analysis of biological networks exists in systems biology. We argue that the use of a formal approach is relevant...
Wedescribe a knowledgeengineeringapproachby which conceptualknowledgeis extractedfroman informal,semanticallyweakmedicalthesaurus(UMLS)and automatically convertedinto a formallyso...