Evolving knowledge graph similarity for supervised learning in complex biomedical domains.

Journal: BMC bioinformatics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: In recent years, biomedical ontologies have become important for describing existing biological knowledge in the form of knowledge graphs. Data mining approaches that work with knowledge graphs have been proposed, but they are based on vector representations that do not capture the full underlying semantics. An alternative is to use machine learning approaches that explore semantic similarity. However, since ontologies can model multiple perspectives, semantic similarity computations for a given learning task need to be fine-tuned to account for this. Obtaining the best combination of semantic similarity aspects for each learning task is not trivial and typically depends on expert knowledge.

Authors

  • Rita T Sousa
    Departamento de informática, LASIGE Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 1749 - 016 Lisboa, Portugal.
  • Sara Silva
    LASIGE, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
  • Catia Pesquita
    Departamento de Informática, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.