Terminology Standardization Group name: Ontology Group
Purposes:
1. support automated linking of database metadata terms into standard nomenclature, with aliasing;
2. provide ontological framework for metadata;
3. analyze and contrast definitions of related concepts, to assist experts in various agencies.
Approach:
- ISI’s SENSUS ontology (100,000 nodes)
- Columbia’s NL analysis technology
- Columbia’s Lexical Knowledge Base structure
- ISI’s concept-alignment techniques