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Meridian-collateral knowledge is a profound and complex part of the whole traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). It is the basis for many TCM-related computer applications. This work aimed to develop a sharable knowledge base of the human meridian-collateral system for those applications. We began the work by building a frame ontology of the meridian-collateral system (called OMCAP); and then developed a large-scale sharable instance base (called IMCAP), which was, with the aid of the tool OKEE. The OMCAP consists of 89 categories and 38 slots, and the IMCAP contains 1549 instance frames.
This work is supported by the Natural Science Foundation (#60496326 and #60273019), and the National 973 Programme (#2003CB317008).
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Cao, C.G., Sui, Y.F. (2006). Building an Ontology and Knowledge Base of the Human Meridian-Collateral System. In: Macintosh, A., Ellis, R., Allen, T. (eds) Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XIII. SGAI 2005. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-84628-224-1_15
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