sedic project - semantic medicine

Alexandra Lacatus, Emanuela Catana

Faculty of Computer Science, Iasi

Semantic Medicine

Motivation

Semantic Medicine, FCS Iasi, 20132

Herbal Medicine is an important alternative to drug-based

medicine

HM represents many people’s choices

The web has plenty of relevant information (unstructured

yet)

The project combines the use of semantic data representation

with useful information (medicinal plants)

Current work


Medicinal plant collections (HerbMed, MedlinePlus)

Ontologies for modelling plant vocabularies (The Plant

Ontology)

Ontologies for indian medicinal plants (MP-Ontology, KIMP

project)

SEDIC Project Milestones


HM-ontology specification

Data extraction (websites, DBpedia)

REST API + SPARQL endpoint to access the data

Android client application

Main user stories


Search for a possible cure for an illness

An illness is characterized by an affected body area and some

affection parameters (intensity, type). The user can also

specify a medical condition (contraindications, other

diseases)

Look up for the characteristics of a specific plant

(search upon a plant name)

System architecture


Proposal – HM-Ontology


A task-oriented ontology for representing medicinal plants

Proposal – REST API


GET /plantRemedy

Gets the information about a single plant remedy

POST /plantRemedy

Uses the existing parameters to search for remedies

GET /plant

Returns information about a specific plant

POST /plant

Uses the parameters to search for plants with the specified

name/location

Until next time: priorities


We will focus more on the modelling part and on the REST

API implementation rather than on the esthetical aspects on

this project

Depending on the timeframe, we could include also extra

features, like the possibility to add an upvote/downvote for a

remedy

sedic project - semantic medicine

Technology