论文标题
生物医学本体论中句法建模结构的调查
A Survey of Syntactic Modelling Structures in Biomedical Ontologies
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论文摘要
尽管在生物医学领域中大量吸收了语义技术，但对于已发表的本体论中的共同建模实践知之甚少。猫头鹰本体通常仅以一组公理的粗糙形式出版，使底层设计不透明。但是，原则和系统的本体发展生命周期可能反映在本体论的新句法结构的规律性中。为了发展对这种新兴结构的理解，我们建议采用以语法为导向的方法来识别和分析公理和公理集的规律性的方法。我们根据猫头鹰公理和班级框架的句法建模趋势和常见实践来调查生物规模。我们的发现表明，生物医学本体仅共享简单的句法结构，其中猫头鹰构造者没有以复杂的方式深入嵌套或组合。尽管这种简单的结构通常在给定的本体论中说明了大量的公理，但许多本体论还包含非平凡数量的更复杂的句法结构，这些结构在整体中并不常见。
Despite the large-scale uptake of semantic technologies in the biomedical domain, little is known about common modelling practices in published ontologies. OWL ontologies are often published only in the crude form of sets of axioms leaving the underlying design opaque. However, a principled and systematic ontology development life cycle is likely to be reflected in regularities of the ontology's emergent syntactic structure. To develop an understanding of this emergent structure, we propose to reverse-engineer ontologies taking a syntax-directed approach for identifying and analysing regularities for axioms and sets of axioms. We survey BioPortal in terms of syntactic modelling trends and common practices for OWL axioms and class frames. Our findings suggest that biomedical ontologies only share simple syntactic structures in which OWL constructors are not deeply nested or combined in a complex manner. While such simple structures often account for large proportions of axioms in a given ontology, many ontologies also contain non-trivial amounts of more complex syntactic structures that are not common across ontologies.
