ABSTRACT
Mosquitoes belonging to the genus Aedes, such as Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus species, arc the prime vectors of several arboviral diseases such as dengue, zika, yellow fever, and chikungunya. Every year, numerous cases of dengue infections occur throughout the world. Vector control is an efficient method to control these arboviral diseases. However, the onset of insecticide resistance has failed in controlling the vectors. The continuous synthetic insecticide may cause toxicity to human health through the food chain. The alternate strategy of vector control can be achieved with the use of biological control by microbes or medicinal plants which are harmless to human health. Most of the biological agents control the immature species in its oviposition, larvae, or pupae stages. The semantic relations among the mosquitoes and biocontrol agents help to control the species harmlessly. Still, the semantic relations among the Aedes mosquito vectors and their biocontrol agents are not explored well. Learning semantic relations is challenging due to the lack of semantic representation for Aedes mosquito vectors. Ontology helps to provide the semantic information that may be used to extract meaningful 200relations. This chapter discusses the role of Aedes ontology and the issues in extracting domain specific semantic relations.
