Re: My task from last week: Semantic free identifiers

2011-06-21 Thread Matt Vagnoni
Here's my thinking: The whole point of the semantic web is to get away from relying on terms. Why would you intentionally want to become dependent upon labels (terms)? Label's are not identifiers; they are annotations. There is no uniqueness guarantee. A concept can have many labels and many co

Re: My task from last week: Semantic free identifiers

2011-06-20 Thread Matt Vagnoni
I agree with Chime points. I will add that the great missing feature or tool is versioning and depreciation handling. I had a customer see a GUID URI once and freak out and almost drop a contract. Readability and maintainability is important. Enforcing uniqueness in literals is not part of the

Re: My task from last week: Semantic free identifiers

2011-06-20 Thread Matt Vagnoni
I tend to believe that "Perfect is the Enemy of Good". It seems that everyone agrees at some point you need semantic identifiers. Look at the RDF, RDFS, and OWL standards. They don't use non-semantic identifiers (alphanumeric/guids) for core Classes and Predicates. The English-centric standard

Re: My task from last week: Semantic free identifiers

2011-06-20 Thread Matt Vagnoni
It is a burden to carry this prefix file and maintain it, but its better than not being able to do anything about it. ...from phone On Jun 20, 2011 3:47 AM, "James Malone" wrote: Hi, On last week's call I was tasked with contacting Chris and Alan regarding the form of the Relations Ontology UR

Re: URI for MeSH

2011-06-06 Thread Matt Vagnoni
Is this the official MeSH base uri? ...from phone On Jun 6, 2011 8:37 AM, "Amrapali J Zaveri" wrote: Hi, Here's an example URI for a MeSH term: http://bio2rdf.org/searchns/mesh/parkinson MeSH also has a SPARQL endpoint available at http://mesh.bio2rdf.org/sparql Hope that helps ! Regards, Amr

Re: Watson

2011-02-15 Thread Matt Vagnoni
It is a fascinating architecture. What particularly drew me in is the multiple different evidence spaces they had to use. And that they made at least a token mention to the power of utilizing structured knowledge to enhance statistical methods. On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Oliver Ruebenacke

Re: NYT Rare Sharing of Data Leads to Progress on Alzheimer’s Published: August 12, 2010

2010-08-14 Thread Matt Vagnoni
Well it seems like a utopian model, but at the same time in academics you are judged on your papers and grants. So without some exclusivity it is difficult for academics to cope. Obviously with a study that couldn't be done without a great deal of cash, collaborations are vital...but as much as

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
sary, but in order to engage a wider (and I don't count as a very wide) clinical audience, we will need a better way of explaining and presenting it. I don't know what that is, but I'm fairly sure its necessary. Matt

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

2008-06-25 Thread Matt Williams
see any real upside in restricting the membership, but I might be missing something. Matt Miller, Michael D (Rosetta) wrote: hi all, i've also been lurking, even more so than phil. priorities prevent me from being more active but without access to this list i would not be the propon

Re: Minutes HCLSIG kickoff call June 12

2008-06-14 Thread Matt Williams
an IE approach easier. HTH, Matt "Breast Neoplasms"[Mesh] AND ("antineoplastic agents" [Mesh] AND "Prognosis"[Mesh]) AND (methods[Title/Abstract]) limited to English language, Female, Adults, RCTs gives >400. The use of "Methods" aims to pick out m

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

2008-06-12 Thread Matt Williams
27;m sure there's a reason - I just don't know what it is). Thanks, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ronald I checked RxNav and it is a good tool to get most of information we needed for the COI test case. I will check the mapping between RxNorm ingredients and SNOMED to see how

Re: Trust in statements (was BioRDF Brainstorming)

2008-02-13 Thread Matt Williams
graph saying what you mean. I'll try and find a paper on the "p-modals" (possible, probable, etc.) and ways of combining them tomorrow and put a paragraph on the wiki. Matt Alan Ruttenberg wrote: I'm personally fond of the symbolic approach - I think it is more direct and

Re: BioRDF Brainstorming

2008-02-13 Thread Matt Williams
a little work in the clinical domain using structured abstracts as a guide to help extract info automatically/ semi-automatically. Looks promising, but noting concrete yet. Matt Colin Batchelor wrote: I also think that the machine-readable representation of facts about biology should have a high

Re: BioRDF Brainstorming

2008-02-12 Thread Matt Williams
ight help, but not enoughin any case, there are other bits (e.g. which type of bananas they used) that you might well want to capture. I may have missed something here, and if anyone has already done most of this, I'd be very interested in seeing it. Thanks, Matt -- http://acl.icnet.uk/~mw http://adhominem.blogsome.com/ +44 (0)7834 899570

Trust in statements (was BioRDF Brainstorming)

2008-02-12 Thread Matt Williams
ations and levels of belief in the literature. Matt -- http://acl.icnet.uk/~mw http://adhominem.blogsome.com/ +44 (0)7834 899570

Re: Mammographic ontology

2008-02-12 Thread Matt Williams
A has done a bit more on this - do you have any pointers/ papers/ work to suggest. Thanks, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Can you elaborate on what aspects of mammography you include in your ontology? I am interested in the diagnostic aspect, i.e. image features, patient clinical in

Mammographic ontology

2008-02-12 Thread Matt Williams
existing terms (e.g. from GALEN, etc.)? Matt -- http://acl.icnet.uk/~mw http://adhominem.blogsome.com/ +44 (0)7834 899570

Notes from ICTAI 07

2007-11-01 Thread Matt Williams
me page is linked to here: http://adhominem.blogsome.com/2007/11/01/ictai-07/ HTH, Matt -- http://acl.icnet.uk/~mw http://adhominem.blogsome.com/ +44 (0)7834 899570

Re: [COI] seen on another list: GLIF

2007-10-24 Thread Matt Williams
article: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=150359 HTH, Matt Jyotishman Pathak wrote: This is sort of interesting, because I am also trying to explore more information about GLIF, and was looking for relevant pointers: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web

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 Ste

Re: Preliminary Comments on ADNI - LONI

2007-10-15 Thread Matt Williams
No, I didn't - chasing down images themselves seems prohibitive at this time, given constraints. I would agree with your reading of the terms of use. Matt Alan Ruttenberg wrote: Did you go through the application for access to get this information? Looks like the terms of use

Re: Global Cancer Epidemiology Data

2007-10-09 Thread Matt Williams
Yes. Timings? Matt Kei Cheung wrote: It's fine with me. Cheers, -Kei Susie Stephens wrote: Matt, Kei, Would you be able to provide a summary of the Globocan/ Cancer Mondial data and the GIS data respectively during the BioRDF call on Oct. 15? Cheers, Susie On 10/5/07,

Global Cancer Epidemiology Data

2007-10-05 Thread Matt Williams
GIS, but this is an area I know little about. Matt -- http://acl.icnet.uk/~mw http://adhominem.blogsome.com/ +44 (0)7834 899570

Re: Using SEER Data

2007-10-05 Thread Matt Williams
he utility of this might encourage them to relax the licensing restrictions. I have an idea for a different data set which I will send as a separate email. Matt Alan Ruttenberg wrote: [cc changed to public-semweb-lifesci] We could distribute a script that does the conversion to R

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
ave a look. The real "killer" might be to show how rdf-ing SEER data gives you an advantage - the obvious gain would be that if the SEER data were expressed in terms of a uniform ontology, it could link with some other data. HTH, Matt 1: http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/philosophy/jw

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
I was going to try and pull some ideas together and send them as and email; I'll do that, and as long as people aren't horrified by it (I expect discussion) I'll set up a wiki page. Matt Eric Neumann wrote: Bill, Thanks for sending out the urls-- always good for a dis

Evidence

2007-06-11 Thread Matt Williams
Probabilistic Reasoning". Also,a look at the evidence science website might be good: http://www.evidencescience.org/ HTH, Matt

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
legal niceties may be unnecessary. I also know that the issue has been looked at by some in the argumentation community, where the "source" of the rules that make the argument need to be defined. If anyone is interested in these, please contact me off-list. Thanks, Matt -- http://acl

Re: bioGUID

2007-03-30 Thread Matt
On 3/30/07, Roderic Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Matt, > Do you have any publications that outline the motivation here (except > the LSIDs don't work for the semantic web argument you have outlined > in your online material)? No publication as yet on bioGUID, but

Re: bioGUID

2007-03-29 Thread Matt
interpret records in one database to find accession numbers for another database and so on until you find sort of what you are looking for in the actual database you want. cheers Matt On 3/30/07, Roderic Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've put together a web site called http://biogu

Re: A question on the vocabulary for 'persons'

2006-09-12 Thread Matt
It's probably quite important to define various relation classes for the aggregated properties we tend to relate to a person. I would imagine this comes under standard upper ontologies. It would necessarily need to include definitions of FOAF and vCard so that we could classify across current data

Re: URI thoughts

2006-07-30 Thread Matt
Donald's solution feels a little circular. The interpretation of these relations still need a formal specification, which OWL would do nicely for, but then OWL already defines similar constructs. I think the "one true ontology" idea fails simply through open world semantics; I'm not sure

RE: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-05 Thread matt
reasonably mapped to is_a and part_of relations. Matt > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Olivier > Bodenreider > Sent: 05 June 2006 18:00 > To: Benjamin Good > Cc: 'public-semweb-lifesci' > Subject: Re: Bi

Re: proposal for standard NCBI database URI

2006-05-09 Thread Matt Halstead
On 9/05/2006, at 8:46 PM, Matthias Samwald wrote: Hi Alan, As far as I know there is no standard URI for a resource at NCBI. I would like to propose that there be one, since we will all need them to use when we refer to these resources in our RDF. (and I need one *now*) I think we sh

Re: [BioRDF] Scalability

2006-04-04 Thread Matt Halstead
oblems we have dealt with in other systems, and it's really a matter of hard work and focus to bring some of these tools into a more production oriented world. cheers Matt On 5/04/2006, at 4:34 AM, Cutler, Roger (RogerCutler) wrote: Somewhere down near the bottom of the lengthy thread th

RE: Apply Ontology Automatically (was: Ontology editor + why RDF?)

2006-04-03 Thread matt
Here's my favorite example of useful automated ontology application, achieved by combining two readily available technologies: http://www.hackdiary.com/archives/70.html Matt > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Inter

RE: [BIORDF] Re: Unstructured vs. Structured (was: HL7 and patient records in RDF/OWL?)

2006-02-23 Thread matt
data in a form suitable for easy unambiguous scraping, with the datatypes identified. Matt > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alf Eaton > Sent: 23 February 2006 18:01 > To: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org > Subjec

RE: Nature: A call for a public gene Wiki

2006-02-09 Thread matt
elationship between an official "release" of Firefox (from Mozilla.org or from another unofficial provider, as compared to the nightly builds. The availability of the nightly builds has huge value, but if you want to be cautious you can be too. Matt This email has been scanned by Postini. For more information please visit http://www.postini.com