Towards a teenager tailored ontology — Supporting inference about the obesity-related health status —

In this paper we outline the general framework of the ontology that captures the obesity-related features of teenagers. We present our particular choices regarding the ontology-structure, which should be capable of capturing (1) multiple perspectives used to describe an adolescent and (2) reasoning about the individual changes during the time. In the same line, we address several issues related to the modelling of normative concepts related to obesity and depict how the public health concern impacts classification of teenagers according to their phenotypes. In particular, we present a fragment of the ontology that supports inference about individuals and a personalised assessment of the obesity-related health conditions.

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