An Ontology-Based Knowledge Methodology in the Medical Domain in the Latin America: the Study Case of Republic of Panama

Nowadays in Panama, there is a lot of patient information stored in textual form which cannot be manipulated to manage adequate knowledge. There are multiple resources created to represent knowledge, including specialized glossaries, ontologies, among others. The ontologies are an important part within the scope of the recovery and organization of the information and the semantic web. Also in recent works they are used in applications of natural language processing (NLP), as a knowledge base