Ontological reconstruction of the clinical terminology of traditional Chinese medicine

Abstract

This study proposes the ontological reconstruction of the current clinical terminology of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). It also provides an overview of preliminary work related to the said reconstruction, including the ontology-based analysis of TCM clinical terminology. We conclude that the ontological reconstruction of TCM clinical terminology provides a proper translation from the idealized organizational model to real-world implementation and to a formalized, shared, and knowledge-based framework.

Keywords

ontology / traditional Chinese medicine / clinical terminology

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Acknowledgements

This study was supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program, No. 2012AA02A609).

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