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Suggested (by Sandro) categories of success by technology used

  • Category:DL_Success (any kind of description logic reasoning)
  • Category:OWL_DL_Success (specifically OWL)
  • Category:OWL_2_DL_Success (specifically OWL 2 DL)
  • Category:OWL_2_QL_Success
  • Category:Linked_Data_Success

and by results achieved:

  • Category:Saved_Money
  • Category:Saved_Time
  • Category:Improved_Quality

Maintaining the Medical Entities Dictionary

Category: OWL_DL_Success, Improved_Quality

The importance of reasoning support in ontology applications was highlighted in a recent paper describing a project in which the Medical Entities Dictionary (MED), a large ontology (100,210 classes and 261 properties) that is used at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, was converted into OWL and checked using an OWL reasoner [1]. This check revealed "systematic modelling errors", and a significant number of missed subClassOf relationships which, if not corrected, "could have cost the hospital many missing results in various decision support and infection control systems that routinely use MED to screen patients".

[1] A. Kershenbaum, A. Fokoue, C. Patel, C. Welty, E. Schonberg, J. Cimino, L. Ma, K. Srinivas, R. Schloss, and J. W. Murdock. A view of OWL from the field: Use cases and experiences. In Proc. of the Second OWL Experiences and Directions Workshop, volume 216 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR (http://ceur-ws.org/), 2006.

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