Weintroducea formalcontext mechanism,embeddedinto a descriptionlogicsframework,whichis ableto uniformly represent and managedifferent formsof ambiguitiesas theyoccurin the courseo...
Wedescribe a knowledgeengineeringapproachby which conceptualknowledgeis extractedfroman informal,semanticallyweakmedicalthesaurus(UMLS)and automatically convertedinto a formallyso...
Increased concern about bioterrorism and emerging diseases is driving the development of systems for early epidemic detection. These systems have different requirements than tradit...
David L. Buckeridge, Martin J. O'Connor, Haobo Xu,...
Ontologies are more than an elaborate approach to the definition and classification of information. They play a vital role in various web-oriented applications that makes a corr...