Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Domain Ontology: Current Status and Rethinking for the Future Development

Yan Zhu; Keyu Yao; Suyuan Peng; Xiaolin Yang

doi:10.24920/004151

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Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Domain Ontology: Current Status and Rethinking for the Future Development

Chinese Medical Sciences Journal Vol. 37, Issue 3, Pages: 228-233(2022)

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- Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Domain Ontology: Current Status and Rethinking for the Future Development
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  1. 1Institute of Information on Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China
  2. 2National Institute of Health Data Science, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China
  3. 3School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China
  4. 4Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Basic Medicine, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100005, China
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- DOI：10.24920/004151
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- Received：04 August 2022，
  
  Accepted：2022-9-14，
  
  Published Online：26 September 2022，
  
  Published：30 September 2022
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Yan Zhu, Keyu Yao, Suyuan Peng, et al. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Domain Ontology: Current Status and Rethinking for the Future Development[J]. Chinese medical sciences journal, 2022, 37(3): 228-233.
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Yan Zhu, Keyu Yao, Suyuan Peng, et al. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Domain Ontology: Current Status and Rethinking for the Future Development[J]. Chinese medical sciences journal, 2022, 37(3): 228-233. DOI： 10.24920/004151.

摘要

在过去的二十年里

随着中医（traditional Chinese medicine

TCM）信息化的发展

本体的重要性越来越受到重视。然而

TCM本体的发展面临着诸多挑战。首先

由于TCM与当代生物医学认识论不同

现有的顶层本体很难应用于TCM领域知识的表示。同时

TCM领域现有的术语标准、术语集和本体互操作性不佳

数据孤岛现象广泛存在。其次

各类TCM本体的形式化表示仍需要进一步完善。因此

我们提出

应在对现有顶层本体开展深入的理论研究

并对TCM中的重要概念进行重新梳理后提出统一的TCM基础语义框架。在这样的框架下

协同构建TCM子领域本体

并以通用格式进行形式化表示。此外

应通过建立本体研究社区来鼓励广泛的合作

以促进本体同行评审和重利用。

Abstract

The past twenty years have seen the increasingly important role of ontology in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). However

the development of TCM ontology faces many challenges. Since the epistemologies dramatically differ between TCM and contemporary biomedicine

it is hard to apply the existing top-level ontology mechanically. “Data silos” are widely present in the currently available terminology standards

term sets

and ontologies. The formal representation of ontology needs to be further improved in TCM. Therefore

we propose a unified basic semantic framework of TCM based on in-depth theoretical research on the existing top-level ontology and a re-study of important concepts in TCM. Under such a framework

ontologies in TCM sub-domains should be built collaboratively and be represented formally in a common format. Besides

extensive cooperation should be encouraged by establishing ontology research communities to promote ontology peer review and reuse.

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