GFO-Light: A Simplified Top-Level Ontology — Introduction and Biomedical Case Studies...36th Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) Conference, May 25-28, 2026, Genoa, Italy.

We present a novel lightweight top-level ontology (TLO) ‘GFO-light’, which has been designed for ease of use by non-ontologists. While most TLOs come with rich, complex axiomatizations and terminologies that include a lot of philosophical jargon, lightweight TLOs aim to strike a balance between expr...

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Publicado en:Studies in Health Technology & Informatics Vol. 336; pp. 1187 - 1192
Autores principales: SCHÄFERMEIER, Ralph, LOEBE, Frank, BUREK, Patryk, BEGER, Christoph, HÖFFNER, Konrad, MATTHIES, Franz, HERRE, Heinrich, UCITELI, Alexandr
Formato: proceedings research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. 2026
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          BEGER, Christoph
          HÖFFNER, Konrad
          MATTHIES, Franz
          HERRE, Heinrich
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