Partonomic Reasoning as Taxonomic Reasoning in Medicine

Abstract

coling.unl-freiburg.de) imb±. tmi-fre±burg, de/medinf) Taxonomic anatomical knowledge, a major portion of medical ontologies, is fundamentally characterized by is-a and part-whole relations between concepts. While taxonomic reasoning in generalization hierarchies is well-understood, no fully conclusive mechanism as yet exists for partonomic reasoning. We here propose a new representation construct for part-whole relations, based on the formal framework of description logics, that allows us to fully reduce partonomic reasoning to classification-based taxonomic reasoning.

Cite

Text

Hahn et al. "Partonomic Reasoning as Taxonomic Reasoning in Medicine." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1999.

Markdown

[Hahn et al. "Partonomic Reasoning as Taxonomic Reasoning in Medicine." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1999.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/1999/hahn1999aaai-partonomic/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{hahn1999aaai-partonomic,
  title     = {{Partonomic Reasoning as Taxonomic Reasoning in Medicine}},
  author    = {Hahn, Udo and Schulz, Stefan and Romacker, Martin},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {1999},
  pages     = {271-276},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/1999/hahn1999aaai-partonomic/}
}