Towards the Semi-automated Building of Knowledge Bases for Biological Research
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Presenter: Natalia Villanueva-Rosales (Carleton University)
Despite the enormous amount of biological knowledge available on the web, automated answering of questions remains an outstanding challenge. The Semantic Web addresses this challenge by enabling the representation of knowledge in a machine understandable way using ontologies. Unfortunately, the design and population of ontologies is still a manual and cumbersome process. To speed up this task, our research aims to develop semi-automated approaches including ontology extraction from databases.
