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Reification of parthood relations according to the SEP-triplet encoding pattern has been employed in the clinical terminology SNOMED CT to simulate transitivity of the part-Of relation via transitivity of the is-a relation and to inherit properties along part-Of links. In this paper we argue that using a more expressive representation language, which allows for a direct representation of the relevant properties of the part-Of relation, makes modelling less error prone while having no adverse effect on the efficiency of reasoning.
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Suntisrivaraporn, B., Baader, F., Schulz, S., Spackman, K. (2007). Replacing SEP-Triplets in SNOMED CT Using Tractable Description Logic Operators. In: Bellazzi, R., Abu-Hanna, A., Hunter, J. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. AIME 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4594. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73599-1_38
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