Towards an Ontology for a Human Genome Knowledge Base

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Ontology, usually understood as a particular representation of a given domain, will become an essential item in the information retrieval system we aim to build. Our research activities are developed on the communicative terminology framework, that is, we mainly deal with units effectively contained in specialized discourse. Bearing in mind this theoretical approach, we consider essential  to establish a link between the specialized knowledge units appearing in specialized texts and the concepts organized in a particular ontology. Having the specialized knowledge units closely linked to a conceptual organization will lead us to propose an information retrieval system based on a Human Genome Ontology that should perform better than the current state-of-the-art systems.

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