TITLE:
Towards A “Deep” Ontology for African Traditional Medicine
AUTHORS:
Armel Ayimdji, Souleymane Koussoubé, Laure P. Fotso, Balira O. Konfé
KEYWORDS:
Primary Ontology, Deep Ontology, Hidden Aspects, Interpretations, African Traditional
Medicine, Description Logics
JOURNAL NAME:
Intelligent Information Management,
Vol.3 No.6,
October
31,
2011
ABSTRACT: The increasing interest on ontologies as the backbone technology for knowledge based systems implies the refinement of ontologies development methods. In this paper we propose a new approach to develop an ontology for African Traditional Medicine. The aim of our approach is to build a deep ontology by deepening concepts descriptions to formally represent all the semantics underlying the concepts used in African traditional medicine. We use a description logics language to formalize our approach.