Grounding Biomedical Ontologies: The Need for Lightweight Top-Level Ontologies

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Ralph Schäfermeier · Leipzig University

Frank Loebe · German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence

Patryk Burek

Christoph Beger · Leipzig University

Konrad Höffner · Leipzig University

Franz Matthies

Heinrich Herre · Leipzig University

Alexandr Uciteli

Abstract

Introduction: We present GFO-light, a novel lightweight top-level ontology (TLO), which has been designed for ease of use by non-ontologists. TLOs are helpful tools for establishing semantic interoperability between domain ontologies, which, in turn, have become an essential tool in biomedical informatics. [for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]

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Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies Semantic Web and Ontologies Machine Learning in Healthcare

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Published in: German Medical Science (German Research Foundation)

DOI: 10.3205/25gmds196

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