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Alexopoulou, Dimitra ; Wächter, Thomas ; Pickersgill, Laura ; Eyre, Cecilia ; Schroeder, Michael

Ontology learning with text mining: Two use cases in lipoprotein metabolism and toxicology

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Abstract

Background: The engineering of ontologies, especially with a view to a text-mining use, is still a new research field. There does not yet exist a well-defined theory and technology for ontology construction. Many of the ontology design steps remain manual and are based on personal experience and intuition. However, there exist a few efforts on automatic construction of ontologies in the form of extracted lists of terms and relations between them. Results: We share experience acquired during the manual development of a lipoprotein metabolism ontology (LMO) to be used for text-mining. We compare the manually created ontology terms with the automatically derived terminology from four different automatic term recognition methods. The top 50 predicted terms contain up to 89% relevant terms. For the top 1000 terms the best method still generates 51% relevant terms. In a corpus of 3066 documents 53% of LMO terms are contained and 38% can be generated with one of the methods. Secondly we present a use case for ontology-based search for toxicological methods. Conclusions: Given high precision, automatic methods can help decrease development time and provide significant support for the identification of domain-specific vocabulary. The coverage of the domain vocabulary depends strongly on the underlying documents. Ontology development for text mining should be performed in a semi-automatic way; taking automatic term recognition results as input. Availability: The automatic term recognition method is available as web service, described at http://gopubmed4.biotec.tu- dresden.de/IdavollWebService/services/CandidateTermGeneratorService?wsdl

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@InProceedings{alexopoulou_et_al:DSP:2008:1506,
  author =	{Dimitra Alexopoulou and Thomas W{\"a}chter and Laura Pickersgill and Cecilia Eyre and Michael Schroeder},
  title =	{Ontology learning with text mining: Two use cases in lipoprotein metabolism and toxicology},
  booktitle =	{Ontologies and Text Mining for Life Sciences : Current Status and Future Perspectives},
  year =	{2008},
  editor =	{Michael Ashburner and Ulf Leser and Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann},
  number =	{08131},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, Germany},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2008/1506},
  annote =	{Keywords: Automatic Term Recognition, Ontology Learning, Lipoprotein Metabolism}
}

Keywords: Automatic Term Recognition, Ontology Learning, Lipoprotein Metabolism
Seminar: 08131 - Ontologies and Text Mining for Life Sciences : Current Status and Future Perspectives
Issue Date: 2008
Date of publication: 03.06.2008

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