While most ontologies have been used only by the groups who created them and for their
initially defined purposes, the Gene Ontology (GO), an evolving structured controlled …

This paper describes MELISA-MEdical Literature Search Agent–a prototype of an ontology-
based information retrieval agent. We have designed a modular system that can be easily …

As a form of important domain knowledge, large-scale ontologies play a critical role in
building a large variety of knowledge-based systems. To overcome the problem of semantic …

Background The existing community-wide bodies of biomedical ontologies are known to
contain quality and content problems. Past research has revealed various errors related to …

Translational research, the effort to couple the results of basic research to clinical
applications, depends on the ability to effectively answer questions using information that …

Abstract To bring the Life Sciences domain closer to a Semantic Web realization it is
fundamental to establish meaningful relations between biomedical ontologies. The …

OntoSearch, a full-text search engine that exploits ontological knowledge for document
retrieval, is presented in this paper. Different from other ontology based search engines …

Integrative neuroscience involves the integration and analysis of diverse types of
neuroscience data involving many different experimental techniques. This data will …

This paper describes the development and testing of the Medical Concept Mapper, a tool
designed to facilitate access to online medical information sources by providing users with …

We present a new method to evaluate a search ontology, which relies on mapping ontology
instances to textual documents. On the basis of this mapping, we evaluate the adequacy of …