Structuring an event ontology for disease outbreak detection

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>This paper describes the design of an event ontology being developed for application in the machine understanding of infectious disease-related events reported in natural language text. This event ontology is designed to support time...

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Main Authors: Shigematsu Mika, Chanlekha Hutchatai, Kawazoe Ai, Collier Nigel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2008-04-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics