Vipul Kashyap

R. Cornet, K.A. Spackman (Eds) Creation and Usage of a “Micro Theory ” for Long Bone Fractures: An (2009)

Howard S. Goldberg, Vipul Kashyap, Kent A. Spackman

We seek to leverage enhanced expressivity in OWL 1.1 via property chain axioms with right identities in order to organize and constrain anatomic concepts for use in clinical descriptions. Anatomic...

1 Q-DATA: USING DEDUCTIVE DATABASE TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE DATA QUALITY ABSTRACT (2009)

Amit Sheth, Christopher Wood, Vipul Kashyap

This chapter discusses an extended deductive database prototype system, Q-Data, developed by Bellcore to improve data quality through data validation and cleanup. The key technology component of...

TaxaMiner: Improving Taxonomy Label Quality Using Latent Semantic Indexing (2008)

Cartic Ramakrishnan, Christopher Thomas, Vipul Kashyap, Amit Sheth

Abstract. The development of taxonomies/ontologies is a human intensive process requiring prohibitively large resource commitments in terms of time and cost. In our previous work we have identified...

Toward (Semi)-Automatic Generation of Biomedical Ontologies (2008)

Vipul Kashyap, Ph. D, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Thomas C Rindflesch, Ph. D

The design and construction of domain specific ontologies and taxonomies requires allocation of huge resources in terms of cost and time. These efforts are human intensive and we need to explore

Trust,-- but Verify! Emergence, Trust and Quality in Intelligent Systems (2008)

Vipul Kashyap

Trust,--but Verify!, a well known political dictum was enunciated by the late Ronald Reagan (United States President, 1980-88) in his attempts to break down barriers and integrate the communist...

Towards a National Health Knowledge Infrastructure (NHKI): The role of Semantics-based Knowledge Management (2008)

Vipul Kashyap, Tonya Hongsermeier

The healthcare system in the US is facing crucial challenges in delivering effective, efficient and high quality healthcare. These challenges are in part due to the volume of knowledge and...

Abstract Semantics-based Information Brokering (2008)

Vipul Kashyap, Amit Sheth

The rapid advances in computer and communication tech-nologies, and their merger, is leading to a global information market place. It will consist of federations of very large number of information...

TaxaMiner: Improving Taxonomy Label Quality Using Latent Semantic Indexing (2008)

Cartic Ramakrishnan, Christopher Thomas, Vipul Kashyap, Amit Sheth

Abstract. The development of taxonomies/ontologies is a human intensive process requiring prohibitively large resource commitments in terms of time and cost. In our previous work we have identified...

Abstract (2008)

Vipul Kashyap

The rapid advances in computer and communication technologies, and their merger, is leading to a global information market place. It will consist of federations of very large number of information...

Toward (Semi)-Automatic Generation of Biomedical Ontologies (2008)

Vipul Kashyap, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Thomas C Rindflesch, Ph. D, Ph. D

The design and construction of domain specific ontologies and taxonomies requires allocation of huge resources in terms of cost and time. These efforts are human intensive and we need to explore

Q-Data: Using Deductive Database Technology To Improve Data Quality (2007)

Amit Sheth, Christopher Wood, Vipul Kashyap

This chapter discusses an extended deductive database prototype system, Q-Data, developed by Bellcore to improve data quality through data validation and cleanup. The key technology component of...

Declarative RDF Models for Feature-based Targeting of Content (2007)

To Multiple Devices, Vipul Kashyap, Leon Shklar

We discuss an approach for targeted transformations of content to open sets of devices. The key element of this approach is the RDF Model that represents devices as sets of generic features and...

Advancing translational research with the Semantic Web (2007)

Ruttenberg, Alan, Clark, Tim, Bug, William, Samwald, Matthias, Bodenreider, Olivier, Chen, Helen, ...

Abstract Background A fundamental goal of the U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH) "Roadmap" is to strengthen Translational Research , defined as the movement of discoveries in basic research to...

Definitions Management: A semanticsbased approach for Clinical Documentation (2005)

Vipul Kashyap, Alfredo Morales, Tonya Hongsermeier, Qi Li

Abstract. Structured Clinical Documentation is a fundamental component of the healthcare enterprise, linking both clinical (e.g., electronic health record, clinical decision support) and...

Definitions Management: A semanticsbased approach for Clinical Documentation (2005)

Vipul Kashyap, Alfredo Morales, Tonya Hongsermeier, Qi Li

Abstract. Structured Clinical Documentation is a fundamental component of the healthcare enterprise, linking both clinical (e.g., electronic health record, clinical decision support) and...

Healthcare Strategic Focus Area: Clinical Informatics (2005)

Conrad Bock, Lisa Carnahan, Steven Fenves, Michael Gruninger, Vipul Kashyap, Bettijoyce Lide, ...

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The Pudding of Trust (2004)

Staab, Steffen, Bhargava, Bharat, Lilien, Leszek, Rosenthal, Arnon, Winslett, Marianne, Sloman, Morris, ...

Trust - "reliance on the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing" - is pervasive in social systems. We constantly apply it in interactions between people, organizations, animals, and...

The Pudding of Trust (2004)

Staab, Steffen, Bhargava, Bharat, Lilien, Leszek, Rosenthal, Arnon, Winslett, Marianne, Sloman, Morris, ...

Trust - "reliance on the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing" - is pervasive in social systems. We constantly apply it in interactions between people, organizations, animals, and...

The Pudding of Trust (2004)

Staab, Steffen, Bhargava, Bharat, Lilien, Leszek, Rosenthal, Arnon, Winslett, Marianne, Sloman, Morris, ...

Trust - "reliance on the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing" - is pervasive in social systems. We constantly apply it in interactions between people, organizations, animals, and...

Emergent Semantics: An Organizing Principle for Biomedical Informatics and Knowledge Management,” Semantic Web Challenges for Knowledge Management (2004)

Vipul Kashyap

Biomedical and biological research has been transformed from a cottage industry, marked by scarce, expensive data generated manually, to a large-scale data-rich industry, marked by factory scale...

Emergent Semantics Systems (2004)

Karl Aberer, Tiziana Catarci, Tharam Dillon, Stephan Grimm, Said Hacid, Arantza Illarramendi, ...

Abstract. With new standards like RDF or OWL paving the way for the much anticipated Semantic Web, a new breed of very large scale semantic systems is about to appear. Traditional semantic...

Emergent Semantics Systems (2004)

Karl Aberer, Tiziana Catarci, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Tharam Dillon, Stephan Grimm, Mohand-Said Hacid, ...

With new standards like RDF or OWL paving the way for the much anticipated Semantic Web, a new breed of very large scale semantic systems is about to appear. Traditional semantic reconciliation...

Emergent Semantics Systems (2004)

Karl Aberer, Tiziana Catarci, Tharam Dillon, Stephan Grimm, Said Hacid, Arantza Illarramendi, ...

Abstract. With “peer production ” becoming commonplace and new standards like RDF or OWL paving the way for the much anticipated semantic web, a new breed of very large scale semantic systems is...

Emergent Semantics Principles and Issues (2004)

Karl Aberer, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Aris M. Ouksel, Tiziana Catarci, Mohand-Said Hacid, ...

Information and communication infrastructures underwent a rapid and extreme decentralization process over the past decade: From a world of statically and partially connected central servers rose an...

Relationships at the heart of semantic web: Modeling, discovering, and exploiting complex semantic relationships (2003)

Amit Sheth, I. Budak Arpinar, Vipul Kashyap

Abstract. The primary goal of today’s search and browsing techniques is to find relevant documents. As the current web evolves into the next generation termed the Semantic Web, the emphasis will...

Relationships at the heart of semantic web: Modeling, discovering, and exploiting complex semantic relationships (2003)

Amit Sheth, I. Budak Arpinar, Vipul Kashyap

Abstract. The primary goal of today’s search and browsing techniques is to find relevant documents. As the current web evolves into the next generation termed the Semantic Web, the emphasis will...

Machine Learning Databases (2003)

Stefan Decker, Vipul Kashyap, Outline Day, John Godfrey Saxe

meaning or relationship of meanings, or relating to meaning … (Webster), – meaning and use of data (Information System) � Semantic Web: The Semantic Web is an extension of the current web in...

Relationships at the heart of semantic web: Modeling, discovering, and exploiting complex semantic relationships (2003)

Amit Sheth, I. Budak Arpinar, Vipul Kashyap

Abstract. The primary goal of today’s search and browsing techniques is to find relevant documents. As the current web evolves into the next generation termed the Semantic Web, the emphasis will...

Representing the UMLS semantic network using OWL: (Or “What's in a Semantic Web (2003)

Vipul Kashyap, Alex Borgida

Abstract. The Semantic Network, a component of the Unified Medical Language System ® (UMLS), describes core biomedical knowledge consisting of semantic types and relationships. It is a well...

OBSERVER: An Approach for Query Processing in Global Information Systems based on Interoperation across Pre-existing Ontologies (2000)

Eduardo Mena, Arantza Illarramendi, Vipul Kashyap, Amit Sheth, Athman Bouguettaya

. There has been an explosion in the types, availability and volume of data accessible in an information system, thanks to the World Wide Web (the Web) and related inter-networking technologies. In...

Design and Creation of Ontologies for Environmental Information Retrieval (1999)

Vipul Kashyap

1.0 Introduction We are witnessing today an exponential growth of data accumulated within universities, corporations and government organizations. Autonomous data repositories storing different types...

Modeling and querying textual data using E-R models and SQL (1997)

Vipul Kashyap, Marek Rusinkiewicz

Recent emerging technologies such as internetworking and the World Wide Web have significantly expanded the types of data available to an information management system. TextuM data is the most...

Information Brokering over Heterogeneous Digital Data: A Metadata-based Approach (1997)

Vipul Kashyap, Prof Haym Hirsh, Vipul Kashyap, Vipul Kashyap

Information overload, arising from different types of heterogeneous digital data readily accessible from millions of repositories, is a critical problem on the Global Information Infrastructure...

Modeling and Querying Textual Data using E-R Models and SQL (1997)

Vipul Kashyap And, Vipul Kashyap, Marek Rusinkiewicz

Recent emerging technologies such as internetworking and the World Wide Web have significantly expanded the types of data available to an information management system. Textual data is the most...

Modeling and Querying Textual Data using E-R Models and SQL (1997)

Vipul Kashyap, Marek Rusinkiewicz

Recent emerging technologies such as internetworking and the World Wide Web have significantly expanded the types of data available to an information management system. Textual data is the most...

Semantic and schematic similarities between database objects: A context-based approach (1996)

Vipul Kashyap, Amit Sheth

Inamultidatabase system, schematic con icts between two objects are usually of interest only when the objects have some semantic similarity. We use the concept of semantic proximity, which is...

Semantic and schematic similarities between database objects: A context-based approach (1996)

Vipul Kashyap, Amit Sheth

Abstract. In a multidatabase system, schematic conflicts between two objects are usually of interest only when the objects have some semantic similarity. We use the concept of semantic proximity,...

Managing multiple information sources through ontologies: Relationship between vocabulary heterogeneity and loss of information (1996)

Eduardo Mena, Facultad De Inform'atica, Vipul Kashyap, Arantza Illarramendi, Amit Sheth

Abstract. The ability to deal with a huge number of independent and heterogeneous repositories is the most critical problem in Global Information Systems. One approach to enable efficient query...

Semantic and Schematic Similarities between Database Objects: A Context-based approach (1996)

Vipul Kashyap, Amit Sheth

In a multidatabase system, schematic conflicts between two objects are usually of interest only when the objects have some semantic similarity. We use the concept of semantic proximity, which is...

Semantic Heterogeneity in Global Information Systems: The Role of Metadata, Context and Ontologies (1996)

Vipul Kashyap, Amit Sheth

Semantic heterogeneity has been identified as one of the most important and toughest problems when dealing with interoperability and cooperation among multiple databases. It was earlier studied in...

Semantic and Schematic Similarities between Database Objects: A Context-based approach (1996)

Vipul Kashyap, Amit Sheth

In a multidatabase system, schematic conflicts between two objects are usually of interest only when the objects have some semantic similarity. We use the concept of semantic proximity, which is...

Semantic and Schematic Similarities between Database Objects: A Context-based approach (1996)

Vipul Kashyap, Amit Sheth

.<F3.733e+05> In a multidatabase system, schematic conflicts between two objects are usually of interest only when the objects have some semantic similarity. We use the concept...

Managing Multiple Information Sources through Ontologies: Relationship between Vocabulary Heterogeneity and Loss of Information (1996)

Eduardo Mena, Facultad De Inform'atica, Vipul Kashyap, Arantza Illarramendi, Amit Sheth

. The ability to deal with a huge number of independent and heterogeneous repositories is the most critical problem in Global Information Systems. One approach to enable efficient query processing is...

Metadata for building the multimedia patch quilt (1995)

Vipul Kashyap, Kshitij Shah, Amit Sheth

Abstract. Huge amounts of data available in a variety of digital forms has been collected and stored in thousands of repositories. However, the information relevant to a user or application need may...

Infoharness: Use of automatically generated metadata for search and retrieval of heterogeneous information (1995)

Leon Shklar, Amit Sheth, Vipul Kashyap, Kshitij Shah

Abstract. The InfoHarness ™ system is aimed at providing integrated and rapid access to huge amounts of heterogeneous information independent of its type, representation, and location. This is...

InfoHarness: Use of Automatically Generated Metadata for Search and Retrieval of Heterogeneous Information (1995)

Leon Shklar Amit, Amit Sheth, Vipul Kashyap, Kshitij Shah

. The InfoHarness ^TM system is aimed at providing integrated and rapid access to huge amounts of heterogeneous information independent of its type, representation, and location. InfoHarness is...

InfoHarness: The System for Search and Retrieval of Heterogeneous Information (1995)

Leon Shklar, Amit Sheth, Vipul Kashyap, Satish Thatte

The "InfoHarness" prototype is aimed at providing integrated and rapid access to huge amounts of heterogeneous information independent of its type, representation, and location. InfoHarness...

Metadata for building the MultiMedia Patch Quilt (1995)

Vipul Kashyap, Kshitij Shah, Amit Sheth

. Huge amounts of data available in a variety of digital forms has been collected and stored in thousands of repositories. However, the information relevant to a user or application need may be...

Semantic and Schematic Similarities between Objects in Databases: A Context-based Approach (1995)

Vipul Kashyap, Amit Sheth

In a multidatabase system, schematic conflicts between two objects are usually of interest only when the objects have some semantic similarity. In this paper we try to reconcile the schematic and...

Infoharness: Use of automatically generated metadata for search and retrieval of heterogeneous information (1995)

Leon Shklar, Amit Sheth, Vipul Kashyap, Kshitij Shah

Abstract. The InfoHarness(TM) system is aimed at providing integrated andrapid access to huge amounts of heterogeneous information independent of its

Infoharness: Use of automatically generated metadata for search and retrieval of heterogeneous information (1995)

Leon Shklar, Amit Sheth, Vipul Kashyap, Kshitij Shah

Abstract. The InfoHarness ™ system is aimed at providing integrated and rapid access to huge amounts of heterogeneous information independent of its type, representation, and location. InfoHarness...

Metadata for building the multimedia patch quilt (1995)

Vipul Kashyap, Kshitij Shah, Amit Sheth

Abstract. Huge amounts of data available in a variety of digital forms has been collected and stored in thousands of repositories. However, the information relevant to a user or application need may...

Semantics-based Information Brokering: A step towards realizing the Infocosm (1994)

Vipul Kashyap, Amit Sheth

The rapid advances in computer and communication technologies, and their merger, is leading to a global information market place. It will consist of federations of very large number of information...

Semantics-based Information Brokering: A step towards realizing the Infocosm (1994)

Vipul Kashyap, Amit Sheth

The rapid advances in computer and communication technologies, and their merger, is leading to a global information market place. It will consist of federations of very large number of information...

Semantics-based Information Brokering: A step towards realizing the Infocosm (1994)

Vipul Kashyap, Amit Sheth

The rapid advances in computer and communication technologies, and their merger, is leading to a global information market place. It will consist of federations of very large number of information...

Semantics-based Information Brokering (1994)

Vipul Kashyap, Amit Sheth

The rapid advances in computer and communication technologies, and their merger, is leading to a global information market place. It will consist of federations of very large number of information...

Semantics-based Information Brokering: A step towards realizing the Infocosm (1994)

Vipul Kashyap, Amit Sheth

The rapid advances in computer and communication technologies, and their merger, is leading to a global information market place. It will consist of federations of very large number of information...

Semantics-based Information Brokering (1994)

Vipul Kashyap, Amit Sheth

The rapid advances in computer and communication technologies, and their merger, is leading to a global information market place. It will consist of federations of very large number of information...

Schema Correspondences between Objects with Semantic Proximity (1993)

Vipul Kashyap, Amit Sheth

In a multidatabase system, schematic conflicts between two objects are usually of interest only when the objects have some semantic similarity. In this paper we try to reconcile the schematic and...

Schema Correspondences between Objects with Semantic Proximity (1993)

Vipul Kashyap, Amit Sheth

In a multidatabase system, schematic conflicts between two objects are usually of interest only when the objects have some semantic similarity. In this paper we try to reconcile the schematic and...

So Far (Schematically) yet so Near (Semantically (1992)

Amit Sheth, Vipul Kashyap

In a multidatabase system, schematic con icts between two objects are usually of interest only when the objects have some semantic a nity. In this paper we try to reconcile the two perspectives. We...

So Far (Schematically) yet so Near (Semantically (1992)

Amit Sheth, Vipul Kashyap

In a multidatabase system, schematic con icts between two objects are usually of interest only when the objects have some semantic a nity. In this paper we try to reconcile the two perspectives. We...

So Far (Schematically) yet So Near (Semantically) (1992)

Amit Sheth, Vipul Kashyap

In a multidatabase system, schematic conflicts between two objects are usually of interest only when the objects have some semantic affinity. In this paper we try to reconcile the two perspectives....

The UMLS® Semantic Network and the Semantic Web

Kashyap, Vipul

The Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS®) , an extensive source of biomedical knowledge developed and maintained by the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) is being currently used in a wide...

The UMLS® Semantic Network and the Semantic Web

Kashyap, Vipul

The Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS®) , an extensive source of biomedical knowledge developed and maintained by the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) is being currently used in a wide...

On Implementing Clinical Decision Support: Achieving Scalability and Maintainability by Combining Business Rules and Ontologies.

Kashyap, Vipul, Morales, Alfredo, Hongsermeier, Tonya

We present an approach and architecture for implementing scalable and maintainable clinical decision support at the Partners HealthCare System. The architecture integrates a business rules engine...

Early Experiences in Evolving an Enterprise-Wide Information Model for Laboratory and Clinical Observations

Chen, Elizabeth S., Zhou, Li, Kashyap, Vipul, Schaeffer, Molly, Dykes, Patricia C., Goldberg, Howard S.

As Electronic Healthcare Records become more prevalent, there is an increasing need to ensure unambiguous data capture, interpretation, and exchange within and across heterogeneous applications. To...