- From: Kashyap, Vipul <VKASHYAP1@PARTNERS.ORG>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 19:32:06 -0400
- To: "Nigam Shah" <nigam@stanford.edu>, "Kei Cheung" <kei.cheung@yale.edu>
- Cc: "Alan Ruttenberg" <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>, "Matthias Samwald" <samwald@gmx.at>, <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
> Why can't we let the doctor just type "left femur fracture" and > decompose this into fracture (site = femur, laterality = left). There > is a lot of debate on pre vs post co-ordination but very little work > to actually bridge the two paradigms... either at acquisition time or > post-hoc (such as that for mouse phenotypes). There are two issues here: 1. Need to do NLP/UMLS/MetaMap to identify concepts, lateralities and sites 2. Need to identify an appropriate parsing -- there might be multiple 3. Need to map into an appropriate pre-coordinated expression... This is where OWL comes in... 4. Requires an underlying ontology, e.g., disease, laterality, site, etc. As you can see it's not an easy problem :-) ---Vipul The information transmitted in this electronic communication is intended only for the person or entity to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this information in error, please contact the Compliance HelpLine at 800-856-1983 and properly dispose of this information.
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