Abstraction networks for terminologies: Supporting management of “big knowledge”

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Highlights:

• The “big knowledge” challenge is managing terminologies with large concept networks.

• An abstraction network denotes a high-level compact network for a terminology.

• Characteristics and the derivation of abstraction networks are discussed.

• Example abstraction networks for some leading terminologies are surveyed.

• Meta-abstraction networks, representing further layers of abstraction, are presented.

摘要

Highlights•The “big knowledge” challenge is managing terminologies with large concept networks.•An abstraction network denotes a high-level compact network for a terminology.•Characteristics and the derivation of abstraction networks are discussed.•Example abstraction networks for some leading terminologies are surveyed.•Meta-abstraction networks, representing further layers of abstraction, are presented.

论文关键词:Big knowledge,Terminology abstraction network,Terminology visualization,Terminology meta-abstraction network,Biomedical terminology modeling,Disjoint abstraction network

论文评审过程:Received 7 November 2014, Revised 24 February 2015, Accepted 25 March 2015, Available online 2 April 2015, Version of Record 31 May 2015.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2015.03.005