- From: <kc28@email.med.yale.edu>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 20:27:53 -0400
- To: "Kashyap, Vipul" <VKASHYAP1@PARTNERS.ORG>
- Cc: Nigam Shah <nigam@stanford.edu>, Kei Cheung <kei.cheung@yale.edu>, Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>, Matthias Samwald <samwald@gmx.at>, public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
In the context of neuroscience, I hope things like "long-term depression" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_depression) won't get the system confused. By the way, in mammalian phenotype ontology, there is a term called "reduced long-term depression" -Kei Quoting "Kashyap, Vipul" <VKASHYAP1@PARTNERS.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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