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Date: 2008/12/18 23:30:00

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Authors:

Paolo Ciccarese - Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School

Contributors:

Tim Clark - Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School

June Kinoshita - Alzheimer Research Forum

Marco Ocana - Balboa Systems Inc.

Gwen Wong - Alzheimer Research Forum

Elizabeth Wu - Alzheimer Research Forum

Copyright © 2007-2009 by Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachussets, USA.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. This copyright applies to the Scientific Discourse Relationships Ontology Specification and accompanying documentation in RDF. Regarding underlying technology, SWAN uses W3C's RDF technology, an open Web standard that can be freely used by anyone.

This visual layout and structure of the specification was adapted from the FOAF Vocabulary Specification by Paolo Ciccarese.

Abstract

SWAN (Semantic Web Applications in Neuromedicine) is an interdisciplinary project to develop a practical, common, semantically-structured, framework for biomedical discourse initially applied, but not limited, to significant problems in Alzheimer Disease (AD) research. The ontology of Scientific Discourse Relationships has been developed in the context of building a series of applications for biomedical researchers, as well as extensive discussions and collaborations with the larger bio-ontologies community.

Status of this document

This specification is currently an evolving document and it is not yet complete.

Table of contents

• 1. Introduction
• 1.1. Terminology and notation
• 2. Scientific Discourse Relationships ontology at a glance
• 3. Scientific Discourse Relationshipsontology overview
• 4. The Scientific Discourse Relationships ontology description
• 5. Cross-reference for Scientific Discourse Relationships ontology classes and properties
• 6. Pellet reasoner validation results

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1. Introduction

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1.1. Terminology and notation

The keywords "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.

Namespace URIs of the general form "http://www.example.com/" represent some application-dependent or context-dependent URI as defined in RFC 2396.

The XML Namespace URIs that MUST be used by implementations of this specification is: http://swan.mindinformatics.org/ontologies/1.2/discourserelationships/

2. Scientific Discourse Relationships at a Glance

An alphabetical index of Scientific Discourse Relationships ontology terms, by class (concepts) and by property (relationships, attributes), are given below. All the terms are hyperlinked to their detailed description for quick reference.

3. The Scientific Discourse Relationships ontology overview

4. The Scientific Discourse Relationships ontology description

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5. Cross-reference for Scientific Discourse Relationships classes and properties

Property discourse-relationships:agreesWith

agreesWith - Expresses agreement of one Entity on another Entity.

sub-property-of: discourse-relationships:inResponseTo

Example of agreement could be a comment on a post in some blog.

Property discourse-relationships:alternativeTo

alternativeTo - Expresses the fact that two different Entities are considered alternative interpretation of the same scenario

OWL Type: http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#SymmetricProperty
sub-property-of: discourse-relationships:relatedTo

Property discourse-relationships:arousedFrom

arousedFrom - Expresses the fact that the existence of an Entities has been inspired by the existence of another Entity

sub-property-of: discourse-relationships:refersTo

Examples of entities that can arise because of other Entities are questions, doubts, ideas...

Property discourse-relationships:cites

cites - Expresses the fact that the an Entities is mentioning explicitely another Entity

sub-property-of: discourse-relationships:refersTo

Examples of citations are bibliographic citations in articles.

Property discourse-relationships:consistentWith

consistentWith - Expresses the fact that two Entities are coherent

OWL Type: http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#SymmetricProperty
sub-property-of: discourse-relationships:relatedTo

Property discourse-relationships:disagreesWith

disagreesWith - Expresses disagreement of one Entity on another Entity.

sub-property-of: discourse-relationships:inResponseTo

Property discourse-relationships:disagreesWith

disagreesWith - Expresses disagreement of one Entity on another Entity.

sub-property-of: discourse-relationships:inResponseTo

Property discourse-relationships:discusses

discusses - Expresses the act of one Entity of conversing or debate on another Entity

sub-property-of: discourse-relationships:inResponseTo

Property discourse-relationships:inconsistentWith

inconsistentWith - Expresses the fact that two Entities are not coherent

OWL Type: http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#SymmetricProperty
sub-property-of: discourse-relationships:relatedTo

Property discourse-relationships:inResponseTo

inResponseTo - Expresses the fact that the existence of one Entity is mainly directed to react to another Entity

sub-property-of: discourse-relationships:refersTo

Property discourse-relationships:motivatedBy

motivatedBy - Expresses the fact that the existence of one Entity is motivated by the existence of another Entity

sub-property-of: discourse-relationships:refersTo

Note: According to WordNet 3.0 the definition of "motivate" is "give an incentive for action". We suggest the usage of this relationships in connection to activities. For instance: An experiment (which is an activity) has been motivated by a research hypothesis.

Property discourse-relationships:refersTo

refersTo - Expresses the fact that an Entity is referring to another Entity

sub-property-of: discourse-relationships:relatedTo

Property discourse-relationships:relatedTo

relatedTo - Expresses the fact that an Entity is related somehow to another Entity

Property discourse-relationships:relevantTo

relevantTo - Expresses the fact that an Entity is representing a relevant source for information for another Entity

OWL Type: http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#SymmetricProperty
sub-property-of: discourse-relationships:relatedTo

6. Pellet reasoner validation results

OWL Species: Lite
DL Expressivity: ALHI
Consistent: Yes
Time: 1233 ms (Loading: 1155 Species Validation: 49 Consistency: 24 Classification: 5 )

Classification:

owl:Thing