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International Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences

DILS 2004: Data Integration in the Life Sciences pp 124–139Cite as

LinkSuiteTM: Formally Robust Ontology-Based Data and Information Integration

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The integration of information resources in the life sciences is one of the most challenging problems facing bioinformatics today. We describe how Language and Computing nv, originally a developer of ontology-based natural language understanding systems for the healthcare domain, is developing a framework for the integration of structured data with unstructured information contained in natural language texts. L&C’s LinkSuiteTM combines the flexibility of a modular software architecture with an ontology based on rigorous philosophical and logical principles that is designed to comprehend the basic formal relationships that structure both reality and the ways humans perceive and communicate about reality.

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  2. Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, University of Leipzig, Härtelstrasse 16-18, 04107, Leipzig, Germany

    Barry Smith & James Matthew Fielding

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Ceusters, W., Smith, B., Fielding, J.M. (2004). LinkSuiteTM: Formally Robust Ontology-Based Data and Information Integration. In: Rahm, E. (eds) Data Integration in the Life Sciences. DILS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2994. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24745-6_9

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