Chemical Entity Semantic Specification: Knowledge representation for efficient semantic cheminformatics and facile data integration

Chemical Entity Semantic Specification: Knowledge representation for efficient semantic cheminformatics and facile data integration

BACKGROUND Over the past several centuries, chemistry has permeated virtually every facet of human lifestyle, enriching fields as diverse as medicine, agriculture, manufacturing, warfare, and electronics, among numerous others. Unfortunately, application-specific, incompatible chemical information formats and representation strategies have emerged as a result of such diverse adoption of chemist...

Towards Efficient Semantic Data Integration

Data are the most relevant part of an information system. The need to handle huge amounts of data leads software companies towards the development of tools that allow several types of organization to effectively face the on demand challenge [1, 14]: in fact, data changes and this happens continuously and faster than ever before. Moreover, data come from an increasing number and variety of infor...

Specification for semantic dictionary integration

One of the goals of the HOMEY project is to develop a technology to be used for deploying innovative tele-medicine services. These new services will be based on an Intelligent Dialog System (IDS), designed and developed to effectively manage an incremental dialog between a tele-medicine system and a patient, taking into account user needs, preferences and time course of her/his disease. The pur...

A Semantic Data Model for Integration of Data and Knowledge

In this paper we present the Data and Knowledge Model (DK-model) that integrates the representation of data and certain types of knowledge in a semantic data model. The ER model is used as a basis for the DK-model. The main features of the DK-model are modularity of modelling, generalization/spe-cialization hierarchies, deductive capabilities in the form of so-called virtual attributes, and inh...

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