Multi-relational ontology structure
AssigneeBio Wisdom Limited
InventorsStephen Gardner, Conor McMenamin, Robin Hill, Nicholas Tilford, Gordon Baxter
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Abstract
The invention relates generally to a system and method for creating one or more structured multi-relational ontologies. The invention may include ontologies comprising assertions made up of concept-relationship-concept triplets. The invention may also include predefined sets of concept and relationship types as well as concept type hierarchies and concept-relationship association parameters. The invention may further include properties as concepts, synonyms of concepts as concepts, and documents or parts thereof as concepts.
Claims22
A computer-implemented system for creating one or more multi-relational ontologies having a predetermined structure, the structure comprising:
- an upper ontology including,
- a set of predetermined concept types,
- a set of predetermined relationship types,
- a set of concept pairs, and
- for each concept pair, a set of possible relationships that can be used to connect concepts of the concept pair;
- a plurality of assertions, each comprising a first concept, a second concept, and a relationship between the first and second concept, wherein any concept within the plurality of assertions can be part of more than one assertion;
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- one or more pieces of evidence supporting each of the plurality of assertions.
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