Formalising uncertainty: An Ontology of Reasoning, Certainty and Attribution (ORCA).

Abstract. To enable better representations of biomedical argumentation over collections of research papers, we propose a model and a lightweight ontology to represent interpersonal, discourse-based, data-driven reasoning. This model is applied to a collection of scientific documents, to show how it...

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Main Authors: Anita De Waard, Jodi Schneider
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1082.6073
http://jodischneider.com/pubs/satbi-swim2012.pdf
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Summary:Abstract. To enable better representations of biomedical argumentation over collections of research papers, we propose a model and a lightweight ontology to represent interpersonal, discourse-based, data-driven reasoning. This model is applied to a collection of scientific documents, to show how it can be applied in practice. We present three biomedical applications for this work, and suggest connections with other, existing, ontologies and reasoning tools. Specifically, this model offers a lightweight way to connect nanopublication-like formal representations to scientific papers written in natural language.