Terminology Standardization
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.
Group name: Ontology Group (ISI and Col.).
Approach:
- ISI’s SENSUS ontology (100,000 nodes),
- Columbia’s NL analysis technology,
- ISI’s concept-alignment techniques.