We discuss recent progress in the development of cognitive ontologies and summarize three challenges in the coordinated development and application of these resources. Challenge 1 is to adopt a standardized definition for cognitive processes. We describe three possibilities and recommend one that is consistent with the standard view in cognitive and biomedical sciences. Challenge 2 is harmonization. Gaps and conflicts in representation must be resolved so that these resources can be combined for mark-up and interpretation of multi-modal data. Finally, Challenge 3 is to test the utility of these resources for largescale annotation of data, search and query, and knowledge discovery and integration. As term definitions are tested and revised, harmonization should enable coordinated updates across ontologies. However, the true test of these definitions will be in their communitywide adoption which will test whether they support valid inferences about psychological and neuroscientific data.
A challenge for the development of upper ontologies is to adopt standardized definitions of cognitive processes and then integrate these processes within the framework of the ontology REF .
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the development, integration, and application of cognitive ontologies
Front. Neuroinform.
Medicine Computer Science