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to concepts, is necessary in dealing with semantic relations between key-
words. Furthermore, itthen may be necessary to clarify concepts that
have not been claried or have not gained a common consensus, such as
“patient notation information” and “medical acts.” On the other hand,
italso would be necessary to decide what aspects of the established con-
cepts of illnesses, drugs, etc., to systematize and in how much detail, etc.
In the next section, we will discuss what is built through ontologies
for such creation, sharing, and management of knowledge including the
systematization and clarication of knowledge.
Construction of Ontologies
In this section, the construction of ontology (in ot ...