Post-Coordinating Orthogonal Ontologies for Data Annotation

Detwiler, Landon T and Shaw, Marianne and Cook, Daniel L and Gennari, John H and Brinkley, James F (2009) Post-Coordinating Orthogonal Ontologies for Data Annotation. In Proceedings, Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association, pages 815, San Fransisco, CA.

Abstract

Using an extended SparQL syntax and engine, known as VSparQL, we demonstrate a method for joining concepts from orthogonal reference ontologies to form new concepts on-the-fly for data annotation. We use Skolem functions to produce unique references for each new data annotation instance.