Anna Kim

TM-MC: a database of medicinal materials and chemical compounds in Northeast Asian traditional medicine

BackgroundIn traditional medicine, there has been a great deal of research on the effects exhibited by medicinal materials. To study the effects, resources that can systematically describe the chemical compounds in medicinal materials are necessary. In recent years, numerous databases on medicinal materials and constituent compounds have been constructed. However, because these databases provide differing information and the sources of such information are unclear or difficult to verify, it is difficult to decide which database to use. Moreover, there is much overlapping information. The aim of this study was to construct a database of medicinal materials and chemical compounds in Northeast Asian traditional medicine (TM-MC), for which medicinal materials are listed in the Korean, Chinese, and Japanese pharmacopoeias and information on the compound names of medicinal materials can easily be confirmed online.DescriptionTo provide information on the chemical compounds of medicinal materials, chromatography articles from MEDLINE and PubMed Central were searched. After chemical compounds of medicinal materials were extracted by manually investigating the full-text of articles, a database of information on about 14,000 compounds from 536 medicinal materials was built. The database also provides links to the articles from which each medicinal material and chemical compound were extracted.ConclusionTM-MC database provides information on medicinal materials and their chemical compounds from chromatography articles in MEDLINE and PubMed Central. Researchers can easily check relevant information through the links to articles.

Semantic Search System based on Korean Medicine Ontology

We in this paper propose a semantic search system based on Korean medicine ontology. Semantic search augments search results and improves search accuracy by understanding which concept denotes terms which users is trying to find. Our semantic search system also provides these semantic search capabilities. Moreover, search scenarios which is meaningful in Korean medicine are designed and implemented by analyzing the semantics of Korean medicine ontology. Therefore, our system can help users find the useful search results with respect to Korean medicine by providing the more meaningful information as well as the connected information in ontology.

A Study of Disassembling Major Indication Terms into Minimum Meaning Units and Linking to Diseases

ABSTRACT Objectives : Ontology is a good tool to represent the knowledge and has developed for Traditional Korean Medicine(TKM) in Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine. There are a lot of TKM terms, which have a complex meaning, especially major indication terms of medicinal treatment and terms of symptom and disease. These complex meaning terms result in the low linkage between major indication terms of medicinal treatment and terms of symptom and disease in TKM ontology. We studied to enhance the percentage of the linkage among those data in TKM ontology. Methods : We disassembled major indication terms of medicinal treatment into minimum meaning units and then linked them to enhance the percentage of the linkage among medicinal material, formula and disease ontology based on Traditional Korean Medicine. To retain objectivity, several experts of Korean Medicine used a web- based tool that supports users in refining terms and disassembling them into the minimum meaning efficiently. Results : The outcome shows that the percentage of the linkage among medicinal material, formula and disease ontology increased. By linking disassembled major indication terms to symptoms and diseases, the amount of

A Service of Korean Medical Standard Terminology and Directions for Future Development

한의학 분야에서는 오랜 기간 동안 한의학 용어가 혼재되어 사용되어 왔다. 대한한의학회에서는 우리나 라에서 사용되고 있는 한의학 용어를 체계적으로 정리하고 표준화하여 표준한의학용어집을 발간하였다. 본 연구에서는 표준한의학용어집의 콘텐츠를 바탕으로 표준한의학용어집 온라인 서비스를 구축하였다. 표 준한의학용어집 온라인 서비스는 표준 한의학 용어와 해설을 찾아보고 용어의 해설에 대한 의견을 모아서 반영할 수 있는 시스템이다. 표준용어와 시맨틱 검색 결과와 네이버 지식백과 검색 결과를 한 화면에서 볼 수 있어 한의학 표준용어를 다양하게 비교하고 참조할 수 있도록 하였다. 또한 로그를 분석하여 검색 기능 개선, 홍보 활용, Open API 제공 등 향후 발전 방향을 제시하였다. 로그를 통해 일관된 방문자와 수요가 존재함을 알 수 있었으며, 올해 6월을 기점으로 검색 건수가 점점 상승하고 있는 것을 알 수 있었다. 향후 표준화된 한의학 용어는 국내 학술연구, 한의 임상은 물론 한의학 국제 표준화에도 중요한 근거가 될 것으로 기대된다.

Study on the Ontology Linking by Acupuncture Terms

Objectives : The goal of this paper is to enhance the percentage of linkages between an acupuncture point ontology and an acupuncture treatment ontology. Methods : Terms of the effect from acupuncture points and terms of the treatment method from diseases are selected in the ontologies. We have disassembled the terms into minimum meaning units and then linked them again. Results : By linking terms of the effect and terms of the treatment method, the meaninful information on the acupuncture point and treatment ontology is increased. Conclusions : The links between points for acupuncture points and treatment methods for diseases could improve the information in the ontologies. This also enables the knowledge representation for the use of acupuncture points with accompanied symptoms, causes of disease, and treatment methods.