Abstract The Semanticscience Integrated Ontology (SIO) is an ontology to facilitate
biomedical knowledge discovery. SIO features a simple upper level comprised of essential …

Although potential drug–drug interactions (PDDIs) are a significant source of preventable
drug-related harm, there is currently no single complete source of PDDI information. In the …

Drug Safety (DS) is a domain with significant public health and social impact. Knowledge
Engineering (KE) is the Computer Science discipline elaborating on methods and tools for …

Ecological networks are powerful tools for visualizing biodiversity data and assessing
ecosystem health and function. Constructing these networks requires considerable empirical …

The transformative power of the Internet on all aspects of daily life, including health care, has
been widely recognized both in the scientific literature and in public discourse. Viewed …

The number of NLP and BioNLP tools published as web services grows every year. Web
services do not require installation, they are platform independent, and provide access to …

Informational needs of agricultural consultants are increasingly complex. Advising farmers
on the appropriate measures for optimizing cropping yields demands access to custom data …

Accessing information stored in databases remains a challenge for many types of end users.
In contrast, accessing information from knowledge bases allows for more intuitive query …

Drug Safety (DS) is a domain with significant public health and social impact. Knowledge
Engineering (KΕ) is the Computer Science discipline elaborating on methods and tools for …

This thesis presents a novel framework that assists patients with their information needs and
with finding highly relevant health information on the Internet. This project utilized an …