Re: Multi-layered Knowledge Representations for Healthcare (was RE: An argument for bridging information models and ontologies at the syntactic level)

2008-07-23 Thread Matt Williams
Dear All, This is meant as a friendly comment, and perhaps a comment on the need for further work. FWIW, I'm a UK based Oncology Reg. (can't translate to US terms - sorry) just coming to the end of a PhD in CS. The PhD was peripherally involved with ontologies, and I have edited OWL files by

Re: The W3C mailing lists will be limited to interest group participants.

2008-06-25 Thread Matt Williams
I'd agree (and raised this in an email about 2 weeks ago). I'm interested in the area, but currently work for an organisation that isn't going to pay for membership. I also wouldn't read the archives I don't really see why it should be restricted; having more members is not really more e

Re: Minutes HCLSIG kickoff call June 12

2008-06-14 Thread Matt Williams
Dear All, Have been through the minutes. Very stimulating, as usual. Just one plea (form someone who is neither a member of a W3C body NOR an IE)please don't restrict the mailing list to these people in these groups. There's seemed to be a reasonable amount of discussion about tryin

Re: [COI] CT#8 Drug Information Needed for Test Case Query

2008-06-12 Thread Matt Williams
Dear Helen, I'd be very interested in how you get on. I can't see how to extract a SNOMED-CT ID from RxNorm in the navigator, but I'm sure it can be done from the dataset. More generally, I'm interested why you didn't use drug names from something like Pubmed (I'm sure there's a reason - I

Re: Trust in statements (was BioRDF Brainstorming)

2008-02-13 Thread Matt Williams
core: 70% -Alan On Feb 12, 2008, at 4:03 PM, Matt Williams wrote: Just a quick note that the 'trust' we place in an agent /could/ be described probabilistically, but could also be described logically. I'm assuming that the probabilities that the trust annotations are likely

Re: BioRDF Brainstorming

2008-02-13 Thread Matt Williams
I'd agree - I suspect that simply matching terms doesn't help that much - we'd need to know the context of it, but then it all gets very sticky. There is some work on mining the Chemistry literature from Cambridge (UK) - using ? OSCAR/ Sci-ML I think We've done a little work in the clin

Re: BioRDF Brainstorming

2008-02-12 Thread Matt Williams
Dear All, Just a note on this: For example, article pmid:123 contains the text >> "We found that bananas are yellow. This is in conflict with article >> pmid:456, which states that bananas are pink". >> >> Article pmid:123 should only be annotated with >> "banana has_quality yellow . >> pmid:12

Trust in statements (was BioRDF Brainstorming)

2008-02-12 Thread Matt Williams
Just a quick note that the 'trust' we place in an agent /could/ be described probabilistically, but could also be described logically. I'm assuming that the probabilities that the trust annotations are likely to subjective probabilities (as we're unlikely to have enough data to generate objec

Re: Mammographic ontology

2008-02-12 Thread Matt Williams
formation and the diagnosis to breast cancer. Kind regards. Helen *Matt Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/12/2008 01:35 PM To public-semweb-lifesci hcls cc Subject Mammographic ontology Dear All, Have jus

Mammographic ontology

2008-02-12 Thread Matt Williams
Dear All, Have just been reading the wiki. I note that there is a section on doing a mammogram as a screening test. I have been doing some work on a mammographic ontology, which we might be able to contribute (need to talk to other authors). Would this be useful? How can I align it with ex

Notes from ICTAI 07

2007-11-01 Thread Matt Williams
Dear All, Just back from the Int. conf. on Tools in AI 2007 in Greece. A reasonable amount of use of OWL/RDF for many things. One in particular thought might interest people: a project to map legacy German Nephrology DBs into RDF. The paper isn't yet up, but the author's home page is linked

Re: [COI] seen on another list: GLIF

2007-10-24 Thread Matt Williams
Before getting to hung up on GLIF per se, you might want to consider some of the other Guideline representation languages such as (OTTOMH) Asbru, ProForma, Guide, Prodigy, etc. Have a look at Openclinical.net for (many) more pointers There is a comparison of some of them from a JAMIA 2002 ar

Re: Preliminary Comments on ADNI - LONI

2007-10-15 Thread Matt Williams
majority of the data lies in MRI/PET, rather than anything else (MRA, etc.) HTH, Matt Alan Ruttenberg wrote: Ok. From which document did you get the information about the particulars of the schema you mention? -Alan On Oct 15, 2007, at 4:27 AM, Matt Williams wrote: No, I didn't - chasing

Re: BioRDF Telcon: Apologies

2007-10-15 Thread Matt Williams
Dear All, Have just realised the time of this call (in UK terms) which clashes with me picking up the kids. Sorry. I will summarise those things I have anything to say anything about in advance, and comment on the minutes (assuming they're on the wiki). Apologies, Matt Susie M Stephens w

Re: Preliminary Comments on ADNI - LONI

2007-10-15 Thread Matt Williams
would prohibit our publishing any of the content in a demo. Is that your read too? -Alan On Oct 5, 2007, at 4:22 AM, Matt Williams wrote: Dear All, This is to try an sketch the outlines of the data that seem to be available in ADNI/ LONI, and so solict requests for additional info. The Alzhei

Re: Global Cancer Epidemiology Data

2007-10-09 Thread Matt Williams
*Kei Cheung* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Another GIS/Cancer of interest: http://gis.cancer.gov/ -Kei Matt Williams wrote: > > Dear All, > > Further to my previous email, a different source of data might be the

Global Cancer Epidemiology Data

2007-10-05 Thread Matt Williams
Dear All, Further to my previous email, a different source of data might be the Globocan/ Cancer Mondial data on Cancer Epidemiology from IARC (http://www-dep.iarc.fr/). Again, to make value from this, I think we would need to link it with other things; One obvious route would be through GI

Re: Using SEER Data

2007-10-05 Thread Matt Williams
t possible - but you tell us whether you think that is of value... -Alan On Oct 5, 2007, at 4:26 AM, Matt Williams wrote: I've had a very quick look at this. It might be salutary to read some parts of the data-user agreement. 1. You will not use nor permit others to use the data in any

Re: Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)

2007-10-04 Thread Matt Williams
If work goes well tomorrow, perhaps. Else perhaps Monday pm. Daniel - can we divide this sensibly? Matt Susie Stephens wrote: Hi Matt, Daniel, It would be great if you were able to write a brief description of the data set, list the terms that are used, and also provide some information

Re: Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)

2007-10-03 Thread Matt Williams
FWIW, I'd agree. I've used the data before for some work integrating Bayesian Nets & Ontologies (see 1 & 2). The data set is probably not (that) large by bioinformatics terms, but it is (clearly) clinically relevant, and so might help encourage clinically-minded people to have a look. The r

Evidence Wiki

2007-06-18 Thread Matt Williams
Dear All, I have added some more stuff to this on Toulmin-style evidential reasoning; I'll try and finish it tomorrow. Matt -- http://acl.icnet.uk/~mw http://adhominem.blogsome.com/ +44 (0)7834 899570

Re: Evidence

2007-06-13 Thread Matt Williams
y with evidence - which includes dealing in a consistent manner with "information" entities. I think Vipul, Matt Williams, Chimezie, Daniel and others have all raised important issues in regards to evidence. I would also cite two active threads in the HCLS IG that have direct bea

Evidence

2007-06-11 Thread Matt Williams
I changed the subject line to make it more specific. I think that Evidence is a tricky, slippery subject. It seems to be both traces (i.e. records of something) and in many cases, inferences. Those inferences probably shouldn't be called evidence, but they are the reason that some data are co

Re: Evidence for backing statements

2007-05-18 Thread Matt Williams
a look at the links you sent and probably be in touch Matt Dan Brickley wrote: Matt Williams wrote: I've been lurking & reading the discussion with interest. It might be worth pointing out that there is an ongoing attempt to classify/ represent evidential links/ weight/ etc. st

Evidence for backing statements

2007-05-18 Thread Matt Williams
I've been lurking & reading the discussion with interest. It might be worth pointing out that there is an ongoing attempt to classify/ represent evidential links/ weight/ etc. started in the legal domain by people such as Wigmore and continued by people such as David Schum & William Twining.