@inproceedings{ swat4ls10, author = {Halit Erdogan and Umut Oztok and Yelda Erdem and Esra Erdem} } , title = {Querying Biomedical Ontologies in Natural Language using Answer Set Programming} } , booktitle = {Proc. of the Third International Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS'10)} } , urln = {swat4ls10.pdf} } , year = {2010} } , abstract = {We present a formal framework to find answers and explanations to complex queries over biomedical ontologies and databases, using the high-level representation and efficient automated reasoners of Answer Set Programming. Over this framework, we develop an intelligent user-interface that allows users to enter biomedical queries in a natural language, and that presents the answers also in that natural language. We show the applicability of our approach with some queries over PharmGKB, DrugBank, CTD and Sider.} }