Engineering a Development Platform for Ontology-Enhanced Knowledge Applications

Abstract

Babylon Knowledge Explorer (BKE) is an integrated suite of tools and information sources being developed in GlaxoSmithKline’s A 2 RTto support the prototyping and implementation of ontology-driven information systems and ontology-enhanced knowledge applications. In this paper we describe the current state of BKE development and focus on some of its distinctive or novel approaches, highlighting • How BKE makes use of multiple large pre-existing ontologies in support of text and data mining. • The methodology employed for importing an ontology and making it immediately accessible to BKE’s tools, interfaces, and API. • A formal description of BKE’s ontology-based fact model and how this is employed in implementing information retrieval and data mining capabilities. • A sample application built on BKE that illustrates an ontology-enhanced machine learning tool.