TCMSearch: an in-use semantic web infrastructure for traditional Chinese medicine
by Tong Yu; Meng Cui; Haiyan Li; Shuo Yang; Jinghua Li; Huajun Chen; Peiqin Gu; Yu Zhang
International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalised Medicine (IJFIPM), Vol. 4, No. 2, 2013

Abstract: In this paper, we present an information infrastructure named TCMSearch, which integrates a plurality of databases in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) domain and provides a unified view of TCM knowledge assets through a web portal. TCMSearch was developed based on the Semantic Web, which refers to a bundle of technologies enabling a higher level of web intelligence, including resource description framework (RDF), expressive ontologies, web-accessible repositories, query and reasoning engines, and information extraction techniques. At the foundation of TCMSearch is the unified traditional Chinese medicine language system (UTCMLS), a large-scale TCM ontology that achieves a comprehensive coverage of the TCM domain. TCMSearch can serve TCM practitioners with knowledge assets covering a broad range of topics including basic theories, diagnostics, diseases, therapeutics, acupuncture and moxibustion, medicinal treatments and so on. It demonstrates the advantages of the Semantic Web in preserving cultural diversity and promoting cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary dialogues.

Online publication date: Tue, 29-Oct-2013

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