Partonomic reasoning as taxonomic reasoning in medicine

  • Authors:
  • Udo Hahn;Stefan Schulz;Martin Romacker

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • AAAI '99/IAAI '99 Proceedings of the sixteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence and the eleventh Innovative applications of artificial intelligence conference innovative applications of artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Taxonomic anatomical knowledge, a major portion of medical ontologies, is fundamentally characterized by is-a and part-whole relations between concepts. While taxonomic reasoning in generalization hierarchies is well-understood, no fully conclusive mechanism as yet exists for partonomic reasoning. We here propose a new representation construct for part-whole relations, based on the formal framework of description logics, that allows us to fully reduce partonomic reasoning to classification-based taxonomic reasoning.