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Yearb Med Inform 2011; 20(01): 121-124
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1638749
Synopsis
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart

Knowledge Representation and Management: Benefits and Challenges of the Semantic Web for the Fields of KRM and NLP

A.-M. Rassinoux
1   Information Systems Division, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
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Section Editor for the IMIA Yearbook Section on Knowledge Representation and Management› Institutsangaben

I greatly acknowledge the support of Martina Hutter and of the reviewers in the selection process of the IMIA Yearbook.
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Correspondence to

Anne-Marie Rassinoux, Ph. D
University Hospitals of Geneva
Information Systems Division 4
Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil
1211 Geneva 14
Switzerland
Telefon: +41 22 372 6293   
Fax: +41 22 372 8680   

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Publikationsdatum:
06. März 2018 (online)

 

Summary

Objectives

To summarize excellent current research in the field of knowledge representation and management (KRM).

Method

A synopsis of the articles selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2011 is provided and an attempt to highlight the current trends in the field is sketched.

Results

This last decade, with the extension of the text-based web towards a semantic-structured web, NLP techniques have experienced a renewed interest in knowledge extraction. This trend is corroborated through the five papers selected for the KRM section of the Yearbook 2011. They all depict outstanding studies that exploit NLP technologies whenever possible in order to accurately extract meaningful information from various biomedical textual sources.

Conclusions

Bringing semantic structure to the meaningful content of textual web pages affords the user with cooperative sharing and intelligent finding of electronic data. As exemplified by the best paper selection, more and more advanced biomedical applications aim at exploiting the meaningful richness of free-text documents in order to generate semantic metadata and recently to learn and populate domain ontologies. These later are becoming a key piece as they allow portraying the semantics of the Semantic Web content. Maintaining their consistency with documents and semantic annotations that refer to them is a crucial challenge of the Semantic Web for the coming years.


 



Correspondence to

Anne-Marie Rassinoux, Ph. D
University Hospitals of Geneva
Information Systems Division 4
Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil
1211 Geneva 14
Switzerland
Telefon: +41 22 372 6293   
Fax: +41 22 372 8680