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Table 2 Summary of the terminology and notation used throughout the manuscript

From: Discovering relations between indirectly connected biomedical concepts

Symbol

Explanation

c i

a concept

C

a set of concepts

l

a label representing a relation

R l

binary relation with label l

(c i ,l,c j )/triple

a pair of concepts (c i ,c j ) connected by relation with label l

R

a set of triples

G

the knowledge graph

P

a path in G

f

a feature vector

E +/ E

a set of positive/negative examples

θ

set of model parameters

X

observable variables or observations defined by a model

H

hidden or latent variables defined by a model