Ontology Extension and Population: An Approach for the Pharmacotherapeutic Domain

摘要

For several years ontologies have been seen as a solution to share and reuse knowledge between humans and machines. An ontology is a knowledge photography at the moment of its creation. Nevertheless, in order to keep an ontology useful throughout time, it must be expanded and maintained regularly, mainly in the pharmacotherapeutic domain. Drug-therapy needs up-to-date and reliable information. Unfortunately, achieving a systematic ontology updating has is an arduous and a tedious task that becomes a bottleneck. To limit this obstacle we need methods that expedite the process of extension and population. This proposal aims the designing and validating method able to extract, from a corpus of summary of product characteristics and a pharmacotherapeutic ontology, the relevant knowledge to be added to the ontology.