A Library of Medical Ontologies (1994)
| Venue: | in Workshop on Comparison of Implemented Ontologies, ECAI 94 |
| Citations: | 7 - 3 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Falasconi94alibrary,
author = {Sabina Falasconi and Mario Stefanelli},
title = {A Library of Medical Ontologies},
booktitle = {in Workshop on Comparison of Implemented Ontologies, ECAI 94},
year = {1994},
pages = {81--91}
}
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Abstract
This paper describes an initial version of a library of sharable and reusable medical ontological theories, organized according to a proposed classification of ontologies. 1 1 What is an ontology? The term ontology arises from the philosophical tradition, within which it's typically polysemous [Poli, 1993]; that is, it presents multiple meanings. However, ontology can be generally defined as the doctrine of being or the science of objects (`real' objects as well as abstract, mental or ideal objects). While classical ontology is the result of "the intuitive study of the fundamental properties, modes, and aspects of being, or of entities in general", formal ontology is "the result of combining the intuitive, informal method of classical ontology with the formal, mathematical method of modern symbolic logic" [Burkhardt & Smith, eds., 1991]. There are analogies between the outlined philosophical notion of ontology and the knowledge engineering notion of conceptualization, as defined e.g...
