Searching biomedical ontologies based on content

Alani, Harith; Noy, Natasha; Shah, Nigam; Shadbolt, Nigel and Musen, Mark (2007). Searching biomedical ontologies based on content. In: 10th International Protégé Conference, 15-18 Jul 2007, Budapest, Hungary.

URL: http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2007/

Abstract

As more ontologies become publicly available, finding the 'right' ontologies becomes much harder. In this paper, we introduce a new ontology search technique which is based on corpus analysis. In particular, we look at the case when users search for ontologies relevant to a particular topic (e.g., an ontology about anatomy). Our experiments demonstrate that using our method for query expansion improves retrieval results by a 113%, compared to the tools that search only for the user query terms and consider only class and property names.

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