Title | Mapping of glossary terms from the Flora of North America to the Plant Ontology enhances both resources |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 2012 |
Authors | Walls, RL |
Editor | Cornet, R, Steven, R, Cooper, LD, Macklin, JA, Cui, H, Mungall, C, Stevenson, DW, Jaiswal, P |
Conference Name | 3rd International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2012) |
Date Published | 2012 |
Publisher | KR-MED Series |
Conference Location | Graz, Austria |
Abstract | Traditional taxonomic literature can provide a wealth ofdata, but access to that data is limited by its free-text format. Taxonomic treatments such as the Flora of North America (FNA Editorial Committee 1993) consist of terse descriptions of the characters used to identify taxa, such as: “…Leaves usually alternate or opposite, sometimes in basal rosettes, rarely in whorls; rarely stipulate, usually petiolate, sometimes sessile…” Converting taxonomic descriptions to computer-readable format makes them available for automatic retrieval and large-scale analyses. Ontologies such as the Plant Ontology (PO) play a central role in automatic annotation, by providing semantic meaning for the words in a description. We used automated and manual methods to map terms from the Categorical Glossary for the Flora of North America Project (http://128.2.21.109/fmi/xsl/FNA/home.xsl) to the PO. |
URL | http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-897/ |
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