As more ontologies become publicly available, finding the" right" ontologies becomes much
harder. In this paper, we address the problem of ontology search: finding a collection of …

With hundreds, if not thousands, of ontologies available today in many different domains,
ontology search and ranking has become an important and timely problem. When a user …

We present a system for ontology based annotation and indexing of biomedical data; the key
functionality of this system is to provide a service that enables users to locate biomedical …

The life sciences are a promising application area for semantic web technologies as there
are large online structured and unstructured data repositories and ontologies, which …

Motivation Searching for precise terms and terminological definitions in the biomedical data
space is problematic, as researchers find overlapping, closely related and even equivalent …

Ontologies have proven to be useful in the area of Information Retrieval and the biomedical
informatics community has acknowledged, in recent years, their utility. However, building …

The volume of publicly available data in biomedicine is constantly increasing. However,
these data are stored in different formats and on different platforms. Integrating these data …

Ontologies are frequently used in information retrieval being their main applications the
expansion of queries, semantic indexing of documents and the organization of search …

With the recent growth of Linked Data on the Web, there is an increased need for knowledge
engineers to find ontologies to describe their data. Only limited work exists that addresses …

While the Web makes an increasing number of ontologies widely available for applications,
how to discover ontologies becomes a more challenging issue. Existing approaches are …