A Formal Framework on the Semantics of Regulatory Relations and Their Presence as Verbs in Biomedical Texts

Sine Zambach

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-04957-6_38

A Formal Framework on the Semantics of Regulatory Relations and Their Presence as Verbs in Biomedical Texts

Sine Zambach

Roskilde University

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Abstract

Relations used in biomedical ontologies and expressed in biomedical texts can be very general or very specific. Regulatory relations are used widely in regulatory networks, for example, and therefore they appear systematically and highly frequently in biomedical texts. This work focuses on the logical properties of positive and negative regulations, both as formal relations and the frequency of their usage as verbs in texts. The paper discusses whether there exists a weak transitivity-like property for the relations. Our corpora consist of biomedical patents, Medline abstracts and the British National Corpus (BNC). Finally, the paper discusses the use of the relations for semantic indexing in information retrieval.

Original language	English
Book series	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Pages (from-to)	443-452
Number of pages	10
ISSN	0302-9743
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04957-6_38
Publication status	Published - 2009
Externally published	Yes
Event	FQAS 2009 - Flexible Query Answering Systems - Roskilde, Denmark Duration: 26 Oct 2009 → 28 Oct 2009 Conference number: 8

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Conference	FQAS 2009 - Flexible Query Answering Systems
Number	8
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Roskilde
Period	26/10/2009 → 28/10/2009

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