Semantic similarity and machine learning with ontologies

• Published in: Briefings in bioinformatics Vol. 22; no. 4
• Main Authors: Kulmanov, Maxat, Smaili, Fatima Zohra, Gao, Xin, Hoehndorf, Robert
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 01.07.2021; Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
• Subjects: Constraint modelling; Knowledge representation; Learning algorithms; Machine learning; Method Review; Ontology; Semantics; Similarity; semantic similarity; machine learning; knowledge representation; ontology; neuro-symbolic integration

Abstract Ontologies have long been employed in the life sciences to formally represent and reason over domain knowledge and they are employed in almost every major biological database. Recently, ontologies are increasingly being used to provide background knowledge in similarity-based analysis and m...