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Mining Ancient Medicine Texts Towards an Ontology of Remedies – A Semi-automatic Approach

Authors : João Nunes, Orlando Belo, Anabela Barros

Published in: Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning

Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland

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Abstract

Over the last years, ontology learning processes have gained a vast space for discussion and work, providing essential tools for discovering knowledge, especially from textual information sources. One of the most currently used techniques for extracting ontological elements from textual data is through the application of lexical-syntactic patterns, which aim to explore formalities of the language in which texts are written, for removing hyperonym/hyponym pairs that can be used to identify and characterize ontology concepts and create valuable semantic networks of terms. We applied a lexical-syntactic patterns approach in a set of medicine texts, written in classical Portuguese, during the 16th and 17th centuries, with the goal of extracting hyperonym/hyponym pairs to establish a medicine ontology of the time. In this paper, we discuss the most relevant aspects of an ontology learning system we implemented for extracting the referred ontology, which has the ability for characterizing the knowledge expressed in ancient medicament texts.

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Metadata
Title
Mining Ancient Medicine Texts Towards an Ontology of Remedies – A Semi-automatic Approach
Authors
João Nunes
Orlando Belo
Anabela Barros
Copyright Year
2023
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35081-8_11

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