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KR-MED 2006
Formal Biomedical Knowledge Representation

Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Formal Biomedical Knowledge Representation: "Biomedical Ontology in Action" (KR-MED 2006)
Collocated with the 4th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS-2006)
Baltimore, Maryland, USA, November 8, 2006.

Table of Contents

Papers

• Registration in Practice: Comparing Free-Text and Compositional Terminological System Based Registration of ICU Reasons for Admission (pp. 3-9)
  Nicolette de Keizer, Ronald Cornet, Ferishta Bakhshi-Raiez, Evert de Jonge
• Binding Ontologies & Coding Systems to Electronic Health Records and Messages (pp. 11-19)
  AL Rector, R Qamar, T Marley
• Using Ontology Graphs to Understand Annotations and Reason about Them (pp. 21-29)
  Mary E. Dolan, Judith A. Blake
• An Online Ontology: WiktionaryZ (pp. 31-36)
  Erik M. van Mulligen, Erik Möller, Peter-Jan Roes, Marc Weeber, Gerard Meijssen, Barend Mons
• "Lmo-2 interacts with elf-2" On the Meaning of Common Statements in Biomedical Literature (pp. 37-45)
  Stefan Schulz, Ludger Jansen
• The Qualitative and Time-Dependent Character of Spatial Relations in Biomedical Ontologies (pp. 47-55)
  Thomas Bittner, Louis J. Goldberg
• Towards a Reference Terminology for Ontology Research and Development in the Biomedical Domain (pp. 57-65)
  Barry Smith, Waclaw Kusnierczyk, Daniel Schober, Werner Ceusters
• LinKBase®, a Philosophically-Inspired Ontology for NLP/NLU Applications (pp. 67-75)
  Maria van Gurp, Manuel Decoene, Marnix Holvoet, Mariana Casella dos Santos
• The Development of a Schema for the Annotation of Terms in the Biocaster Disease Detecting/Tracking System (pp. 77-85)
  Ai Kawazoe, Lihua Jin, Mika Shigematsu, Roberto Barerro, Kiyosu Taniguchi, Nigel Collier
• BioFrameNet: A Domain-Specific FrameNet Extension with Links to Biomedical Ontologies (pp. 87-94)
  Andrew Dolbey, Michael Ellsworth, Jan Scheffczyk

Posters

• A CPG-Based Ontology Driven Clinical Decision Support System for Breast Cancer Follow-Up (p. 97)
  Samina Raza Abidi
• Inferring Gene Ontology Category Membership via Gene Expression and Sequence Similarity Data Analysis (p. 98)
  Murilo Saraiva Queiroz, Francisco Prosdocimi, Izabela Freire Goertzel, Francisco Pereira Lobo, Cassio Pennachin, Ben Goertzel
• Experience with an Ontology of Pediatric Electrolyte Disorders in a Developing Country (p. 99)
  Vorapong Chaichanamongkol, Wanwipa Titthasiri
• Issues in Representing Biological and Clinical Phenotypes Using the Formal Models (p. 100)
  Ying Tao, Chintan Patel, Carol Friedman, Yves A. Lussier