Construction Of Acupuncture Concept Semantic Networks

For thousands of years, numerous clinical practice and theoretical research in the field of medicine has accumulated vast amounts of scientific knowledge and build their own unique ideas, methods and theoretical system, the knowledge contained in ancient Chinese medicine as well as the current scientific literature, has important academic value and exploitation of practical value.Acupuncture as an important part of Chinese medicine, the first from the "Yellow Emperor" the beginning and gradually developed into a discipline with its own unique complete theoretical system, and is recognized by UNESCO as one of the masterpieces of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity. In this paper, the concept of the field of acupuncture for the study, in order to expand the set of semantic types of screening to determine semantic relations, semantic structure design, validate and implement semantic relations visualize the results, ultimately building a concept for the study of body acupuncture semantic network purposes.1Research BackgroundFeatures of the medical information is knowledge-intensive, which contains a lot of tacit knowledge, with strong potential for knowledge discovery, but the description and presentation of Chinese medicine "knowledge-intensive" data is rough, which gives TCM data knowledge utilization and conversion of huge obstacles.Semantic Web as a tool for knowledge representation and organization, is an ontology-based logic described conceptual model of the system can be described on the semantic and knowledge level, which in a general way to get knowledge of the field, providing common and consistent understanding of the concepts in the field, enabling knowledge sharing and reuse among different applications and organizations. Logical relationship is very important in a relationship pharmaceutical data, using semantic networks as a tool for knowledge in the field of medicine can dig, discovery and use play an essential role.2Research Content2.1meaning and purposeTCMLS as a medicine by a large field of Semantic Web concepts and semantic relations constituted, its size is already one of the world’s largest domain ontology With the continuous development and application domain ontology language system, there are many questions emerge:first, there is often a domain ontology data inconsistencies; secondly, the old domain ontology will gradually be unable to meet the actual demand; Finally, missing in the process of building the body caused by the entry, concepts, semantic relations and so, inevitably inadequate, resulting in knowledge incompleteness.The object of study is the concept for the field of acupuncture, Chinese medicine is built on the basis of existing language system on acupuncture concept semantic networks, and verified and found to form a mesh network of knowledge representation and visualization graphics show the semantic relationships in order to achieve Chinese medicine to improve the utilization of data and knowledge transfer efficiency, and promote the purpose of the construction and development disciplines.2.2Acupuncture Concept Semantic Networks2.2.1TCMLS:This system is the core of the various disciplines in medicine, the structure consists of two parts:basic vocabulary, semantic networks. The system is relatively abundant expression of relations, on the basis of the original UMLS adds four new medicine peculiar semantic relationship, ultimately forming126kinds of semantic types and58kinds of semantic relationships. but less accurate in describing aspects of the class, did not reflect all attributes of the class; setting next instance of the class relative chaos, there is a lot of overlap and dislocation phenomenon.2.2.2Knowledge of traditional acupuncture Semantic Web:Zhu Ling based on ancient Chinese medicine, acupuncture and traditional knowledge were constructed semantic network, the semantic network constructed mainly ancient history of starting a career in medicine, the use of traditional literature semantic Web research and study of the concept of combining methods of traditional knowledge systems of acupuncture reorganize. But different research focus, resulting in some of the concepts included in the system involved in less of modern clinical and literature, affecting the wider use of the semantic network2.2.3Japanese and Korean acupuncture conceptual framework:2010and2013Japan and South Korea have proposed the concept of acupuncture-related terminology frame design, the two countries are using UML (Unified Modeling Language) approach to build conceptual mode. UML object diagram of the target-oriented approach is to describe any type of system has a wide field of applications, the most common is to create a software system model, support from the requirements analysis software development process. Knowledge of the organization because of the different methods used and the purpose, it would be used for the medical information is obviously not very appropriate.This study use TCMLS classification framework design, learn traditional acupuncture knowledge of ancient concept semantic network processing methods, use owl language and use protege4.1as editing tools. protege4.1as ontology editing software more mature, more focused on the definition of the class attribute, while the relationship clearer expression, freedom, and you can customize the attribute category, acupuncture concept system for building more suitable for their needs.3Acupuncture Concept Semantic Networks Construction3.1System Design PrinciplesSubject integrity principle, the principle of relevance and compatibility, flexibility and scalability principle.3.2Knowledge of the source data preparation3.3Concepts terminology standardization3.4Semantic Types SettingsIn this study, based on the semantic types setting rules were acupuncture concept semantic types of settings. When setting up the semantic type does not exceed the scope of the content included acupuncture textbooks. Next, we will be finalized on the basis of previous work to build on the core concepts in the field of semantic types, in the manner drilldown tree structure.3.5Semantic Relations AnalysisWe set for completion before the semantic types to analyze and extract their implicit various semantic relationships. In this study, the concept of semantic relations semantic network Acupuncture total of21species, including:collateral; forbids; parameters_of; produces; causes; precedes; co-occurs_with etc.3.6Semantic Structure EstablishingSemantic types and semantic relationships constitute a network of semantic structure. In this paper, the expression patterns of Chinese medicine semantic information, namely:" start word+concept A+conjunction+concept B+ending word." One of the "start word, conjunctions, ending word" called semantic relations words. Under normal circumstances, constitute semantic relationships start word conjunctions and ending word is not necessarily occur simultaneously, which conjunctions essential.4Semantic Relationships VerifyingThe use of automatic extraction of semantic relations aids acupuncture concept of semantic relationships prompt and validation. In the text input module of the tool will be entered into the relevant content through between word processing software will enter the content and TCMLS to establish contact, and mapped to the underlying lexicon, semantic types of different groups will distinguish between different colors display, and semantic relationships will be expressed in the form of probability, we manually identify by judgment, can help to control the results of previous work and conduct audits, leak filled.5Semantic Network ShowsProtege4.1comes with graphical display capabilities through the body to complete the construction of semantic network visualization results. The main objective is the use of graphical tools, and clearly more efficient exchange of information for people to discover the laws, to explain the phenomenon, to provide strong support.6Discussion and conclusions6.1discussionThe work will now be completed prior to the relevant research, we can see: Domestic constructed semantic network compared to Japan and South Korea in the framework design more scientific and reasonable, included the concept and design of semantic relations to consider a more comprehensive knowledge of a wide range of applications, the results also show visual graphics more ideal.In addition, because this study is based on Chinese medicine language system is completed, it is necessary to conduct some detailed comparison between the two:Acupuncture concept semantic network, the formation of132kinds of semantic types. TCMLS involving multiple disciplines and fields, and thus its semantic types of settings can not be too detailed and specific. There are95kinds of semantic types and TCMLS not the same, most of which is semantic reference types are further subdivided TCMLS established, such as " acupuncture " under the semantic types are divided into " acupuncture "," moxibustion "" cupping "," acupoints special treatment" and other sub-categories of semantic types; only a small part of the increase is entirely new semantic types, such as" acupuncture effect"," acupuncture dose "and so on.The concept of semantic relations Acupuncture total of21kinds of semantic networks, acupuncture part more than seven kinds of TCMLS, which is mainly due to the relatively broad language system settings section semantic types of acupuncture, and new types of semantic networks semantics more detailed comprehensive, thus allowing the relationship between science category expression.The purpose of this study is based on TCMLS, re-combing semantic types and semantic relationships of acupuncture disciplines to build a complete semantic network, showing acupuncture architecture knowledge, and help provide the basis for the research and study.6.2ConclusionTCM semantic network construction is a long and arduous task to improve the quality of their work for the medicine in the field of information technology plays a very important role. In this article, we focused on the construction of the semantic network in acupuncture, and applied language system based on semantic relationship discovery and extraction tools to verify the relationship between them to achieve the results visualization graphics show.The research work done there a few items:(1) current Semantic Web research at home and abroad in the field of medicine and construction background application was investigated;(2) re-integration of traditional Chinese medicine on the basis of the existing conceptual system language system and combed the semantic relationships involving concepts1705, semantic association3529,132kinds of semantic types,21kinds of semantic relations;(3) use semantic relationship extraction tool for semantic relations after the completion of the system was verified using the ontology software protege4.1implements a graphical visualization of the results show.However, the system there are many shortcomings:First, the semantic types and semantic relationships are not very complete system, along with the need to update knowledge of the subject development and dynamic adjustment; secondly, completed construction of a semantic network of acupuncture concept needs to be further improved and perfected.In the future work program, the corresponding task will focus on two aspects: First, do the updating and maintenance of the system, according to the actual needs of the system at any time to adjust and modify data; Second, with the help of experts in the field to participate improve the concept hierarchy, the concept of relationship systems such as the completeness and correctness.We believe that the study the semantic networks of acupuncture concept, can explain the association between concepts, to promote the development of the theory of acupuncture disciplinary system for knowledge acquisition, knowledge systems to improve utilization and provide important reference and basis.