Title
Evolutionary Discovery of Multi-relational Association Rules from Ontological Knowledge Bases.
Abstract
In the Semantic Web, OWL ontologies play the key role of domain conceptualizations, while the corresponding assertional knowledge is given by the heterogeneous Web resources referring to them. However, being strongly decoupled, ontologies and assertional knowledge can be out of sync. In particular, an ontology may be incomplete, noisy, and sometimes inconsistent with the actual usage of its conceptual vocabulary in the assertions. Despite of such problematic situations, we aim at discovering hidden knowledge patterns from ontological knowledge bases, in the form of multi-relational association rules, by exploiting the evidence coming from the evolving assertional data. The final goal is to make use of such patterns for semi-automatically enriching/completing existing ontologies. An evolutionary search method applied to populated ontological knowledge bases is proposed for the purpose. The method is able to mine intensional and assertional knowledge by exploiting problem-aware genetic operators, echoing the refinement operators of inductive logic programming, and by taking intensional knowledge into account, which allows to restrict the search space and direct the evolutionary process. The discovered rules are represented in SWRL, so that they can be straightforwardly integrated within the ontology, thus enriching its expressive power and augmenting the assertional knowledge that can be derived from it. Discovered rules may also suggest new schema axioms to be added to the ontology. We performed experiments on publicly available ontologies, validating the performances of our approach and comparing them with the main state-of-the-art systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/978-3-319-49004-5_8
EKAW
Keywords
Field
DocType
Description logics,Pattern discovery,Evolutionary algorithms
Ontology (information science),Inductive logic programming,Data mining,Ontology,Computer science,Knowledge-based systems,Knowledge management,Description logic,Semantic Web,Association rule learning,Vocabulary
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
10024
0302-9743
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.50
15
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Claudia D'Amato173357.03
Andrea Tettamanzi266784.56
Tran Duc Minh360.50