The Role of Foundational Relations in the Alignment of Biomedical Ontologies¶
Smith, B., & Rosse, C. (2004). The Role of Foundational Relations in the Alignment of Biomedical Ontologies. MEDINFO 2004.
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Primes¶
- Located-In Relation
- These are not interchangeable, and the formal-ontology tradition spent decades disentangling them precisely because biological, medical, and engineering reasoning broke whenever they were collapsed
This sourceArgues that conflating mereotopological relations (parthood, location, containment) corrupts ontology alignment and anatomical reasoning.
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The abstract backs the paper's diagnosis that conflating is-a and part-of relations produces characteristic errors in biomedical ontologies, but it says nothing about engineering reasoning or decades of disentanglement.
“Here we articulate the need for formally clarifying the is-a and part-of relations in the FMA and similar ontology and terminology systems. We diagnose certain characteristic errors in the treatment of these relations and show how these errors can be avoided through adoption of the formalism we describe.”
- These are not interchangeable, and the formal-ontology tradition spent decades disentangling them precisely because biological, medical, and engineering reasoning broke whenever they were collapsed
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