A PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF AN ONTOLOGY-BASED DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC SYSTEM FOR YORUBA TRADITIONAL MEDICINE.

Omotosho, L. O. and Adeyemo, O. A and Ayeni, O.A and Babalola, G.O A PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF AN ONTOLOGY-BASED DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC SYSTEM FOR YORUBA TRADITIONAL MEDICINE. International Conference on Science, Technology, Ed ucation, Arts, Management and Social Sciences.

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Abstract

Traditional Medicine (TM) has an important place in health care delivery among developed and developin g nations of the world. It is a first point of call before western m edicine and a last resort when all orthodox efforts fail. The objective of this study was to provide a way to share knowledge of Yo ruba Traditional Medicine (YTM) in a machine-readab le form and to use this method to build a treatment system base on Traditional Medicine. The treatment system constru cted in this study is an ontology-based application that can be used for treatment. Description Logics formalism is used to model YTM knowledge with visual reasoning capabilities and pr ocesses. Ontological approach is used to express fo rmal specification of YTM domain knowledge and this is implemented using Web Protégé application. In order to ensure the kno wledge model and ontology view is well defined, a prototype of k nowledge based system is developed based on the ont ology classes or concepts and relationships defined which require co nversion of OWL ontology into the relational datab ase system at first hand.

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