Developing a web-based SKOS editor. Issue 1 (December 2016)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Developing a web-based SKOS editor. Issue 1 (December 2016)
- Main Title:
- Developing a web-based SKOS editor
- Authors:
- Conway, Mike
Khojoyan, Artem
Fana, Fariba
Scuba, William
Castine, Melissa
Mowery, Danielle
Chapman, Wendy
Jupp, Simon - Abstract:
- Abstract Background The Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) was introduced to the wider research community by a 2005 World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) working draft, and further developed and refined in a 2009 W3C recommendation. Since then, SKOS has become thede facto standard for representing and sharing thesauri, lexicons, vocabularies, taxonomies, and classification schemes. In this paper, we describe the development of a web-based, free, open-source SKOS editor built for the development, curation, and management of small to medium-sized lexicons for health-related Natural Language Processing (NLP). Results The web-based SKOS editor allows users to create, curate, version, manage, and visualise SKOS resources. We tested the system against five widely-used, publicly-available SKOS vocabularies of various sizes and found that the editor is suitable for the development and management of small to medium-size lexicons. Qualitative testing has focussed on using the editor to develop lexical resources to drive NLP applications in two domains. First, developing a lexicon to support an Electronic Health Record-based NLP system for the automatic identification of pneumonia symptoms. Second, creating a taxonomy of lexical cues associated with Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) diagnoses with the goal of facilitating the automatic identification of symptoms associated with depression from short, informal texts. Conclusions The SKOS editor we haveAbstract Background The Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) was introduced to the wider research community by a 2005 World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) working draft, and further developed and refined in a 2009 W3C recommendation. Since then, SKOS has become thede facto standard for representing and sharing thesauri, lexicons, vocabularies, taxonomies, and classification schemes. In this paper, we describe the development of a web-based, free, open-source SKOS editor built for the development, curation, and management of small to medium-sized lexicons for health-related Natural Language Processing (NLP). Results The web-based SKOS editor allows users to create, curate, version, manage, and visualise SKOS resources. We tested the system against five widely-used, publicly-available SKOS vocabularies of various sizes and found that the editor is suitable for the development and management of small to medium-size lexicons. Qualitative testing has focussed on using the editor to develop lexical resources to drive NLP applications in two domains. First, developing a lexicon to support an Electronic Health Record-based NLP system for the automatic identification of pneumonia symptoms. Second, creating a taxonomy of lexical cues associated with Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) diagnoses with the goal of facilitating the automatic identification of symptoms associated with depression from short, informal texts. Conclusions The SKOS editor we have developed is — to the best of our knowledge — the first free, open-source, web-based, SKOS editor capable of creating, curating, versioning, managing, and visualising SKOS lexicons. … (more)
- Is Part Of:
- Journal of biomedical semantics. Volume 7:Issue 1(2016)
- Journal:
- Journal of biomedical semantics
- Issue:
- Volume 7:Issue 1(2016)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 7, Issue 1 (2016)
- Year:
- 2016
- Volume:
- 7
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2016-0007-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 1
- Page End:
- 8
- Publication Date:
- 2016-12
- Subjects:
- Semantics -- Periodicals
Medicine -- Research -- Periodicals
Biology -- Research -- Periodicals
Computer systems -- Periodicals
Bioinformatics -- Periodicals
570.285 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.jbiomedsem.com/ ↗
http://link.springer.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1186/s13326-015-0043-z ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2041-1480
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