Design and Use of Semantic Resources: Findings from the Section on Knowledge Representation and Management of the 2020 International Medical Informatics Association Yearbook

Abstract

Objective: To select, present, and summarize the best papers in the field of Knowledge Representation and Management (KRM) published in 2019. Methods: A comprehensive and standardized review of the biomedical informatics literature was performed to select the most interesting papers of KRM published in 2019, based on PubMed and ISI Web Of Knowledge queries. Results: Four best papers were selected among 1,189 publications retrieved, following the usual International Medical Informatics Association Yearbook reviewing process. In 2019, research areas covered by pre-selected papers were represented by the design of semantic resources (methods, visualization, curation) and the application of semantic representations for the integration/enrichment of biomedical data. Besides new ontologies and sound methodological guidance to rethink knowledge bases design, we observed large scale applications, promising results for phenotypes characterization, semantic-aware machine learning solutions for biomedical data analysis, and semantic provenance information representations for scientific reproducibility evaluation. Conclusion: In the KRM selection for 2019, research on knowledge representation demonstrated significant contributions both in the design and in the application of semantic resources. Semantic representations serve a great variety of applications across many medical domains, with actionable results.

Knowledge Representation and Management: Interest in New Solutions for Ontology Curation

“…For 2020, the KRM query retrieved 1,140 citations from PubMed (JBI and JBS excluded) and 35 manually selected citations from JBI and JBS. The trend in citations retrieved by our optimized set of queries on PubMed remains stable in comparison with the 1,189 citations reviewed in 2019 [ 4 ] and we observed a good precision for KRM salient papers. The section editors achieved a first selection of 226 papers based on the title and abstract.…”

“…We conducted the selection of KRM papers, based on the set of queries optimized during the last editions of the International Medical Informatics (IMIA) Yearbook [ 1 2 3 4 ]. In comparison with the latest editions of the IMIA Yearbook [ 3 , 4 ], where both PubMed/MELDINE and Web of Science™ were used to search for KRM articles, we did not expand the search to the Web of Science (WoS) database this year.…”

“…We conducted the selection of KRM papers, based on the set of queries optimized during the last editions of the International Medical Informatics (IMIA) Yearbook [ 1 2 3 4 ]. In comparison with the latest editions of the IMIA Yearbook [ 3 , 4 ], where both PubMed/MELDINE and Web of Science™ were used to search for KRM articles, we did not expand the search to the Web of Science (WoS) database this year. We have observed limited additional contributions in WoS in 2018 (3.4%, n=34/962) and 2019 (1.5%, n=18/1189) and no candidate paper was selected among these additional contributions, mostly because they were more bioinformatics-related than actual KRM papers.…”

Knowledge Representation and Management 2022: Findings in Ontology Development and Applications

“…The year 2022 has yielded an abundant number of publications in the field of Knowledge Representation and Management (KRM) in medicine. KRM focuses on the development and application of resources and methods to be used in other medical informatics domains [1][2][3][4][5][6]. In this synopsis, we present the best paper selection process for the KRM section of the 2023 International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Yearbook and summarize the findings of the nominated candidate best papers.…”

Knowledge Representation and Management: Notable Contributions in 2021

“…Knowledge Representation and Management (KRM) in medicine focuses on the development and application of resources and methods to be used in other medical informatics domains [1][2][3][4][5]. The year 2021 has witnessed a large amount of publications related to KRM in medicine.…”