Extends the Apache Ruta language with an ONTO keyword.
For OBO file types, ONTO should have 3 arguments with the format ONTO('myfile.obo', MyAnnotationClass, 'idFieldName')");
PACKAGE org.apache.uima.ruta.type;
DECLARE Annotation Neurotransmitter(STRING ontologyId);
Document{->ONTO("hbp_neurotransmitter_ontology.obo", Neurotransmitter, "ontologyId")};
So as to improve the management of synonyms in an ontology, we propose an enhanced version of the OBO format called ROBO (for regular-expression OBO). ROBO allows to specify synonyms through compact regular expressions, thus improving the expressiveness and compactness of the ontology. For example, the synonyms for the layer two of the neocortex:
[Term]
id: LAYER:001
name: layer 2
synonym: "layer-2"
synonym: "layer 2"
synonym: "layer-II"
synonym: "layer II"
synonym: "layer-ii"
synonym: "layer ii"
can be written in ROBO as a single regular expression:
[Term]
id: LAYER:001
name: layer 2
rsynonym: "layer[ -](II|ii|2)"