Populating an Allergens Ontology Using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning Techniques

摘要

Ontologies are becoming increasingly important in the biomedical domain since they enable the re-use and sharing of knowledge in a formal, homogeneous and unambiguous way. In the rapidly growing field of biomedicine, knowledge is usually evolving and therefore an ontology maintenance process is required to keep the ontological knowledge up-to-date. This paper presents our approach for populating a formally defined ontology for the allergen domain exploiting PubMed abstracts on allergens and using natural language processing and machine learning techniques. This approach is composed of two stages: locating initially instances of ontology concepts in the PubMed corpus, and finding at a 2nd stage instances' properties and relations between instances.