LinKBase, a Philosophically-Inspired Ontology for NLP/NLU Applications
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LinKBase® is a biomedical ontology. Its hierarchical structure, coverage, use of operational, formal and linguistic relationships, combined with its underlying language technology, make it an excellent ontology to support Natural Language Processing and Understanding (NLP/NLU) and data integration applications. In this paper we will describe the structure and coverage of LinKBase®. In addition, we will discuss the editing of LinKBase® and how domain experts are guided by specific editing rules to ensure modeling quality and consistency. Finally, we compare the structure of LinKBase® to the structure of third party terminologies and ontologies and discuss the integration of these data sources into
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