Title
Semantic similarity and machine learning with ontologies
Abstract
Ontologies have long been employed in the life sciences to formally represent and reason over domain knowledge and they are employed in almost every major biological database. Recently, ontologies are increasingly being used to provide background knowledge in similarity-based analysis and machine learning models. The methods employed to combine ontologies and machine learning are still novel and actively being developed. We provide an overview over the methods that use ontologies to compute similarity and incorporate them in machine learning methods; in particular, we outline how semantic similarity measures and ontology embeddings can exploit the background knowledge in ontologies and how ontologies can provide constraints that improve machine learning models. The methods and experiments we describe are available as a set of executable notebooks, and we also provide a set of slides and additional resources at https://github.com/bio-ontology-research-group/machine-learning-with-ontologies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1093/bib/bbaa199
BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
machine learning, semantic similarity, ontology, knowledge representation, neuro-symbolic integration
Journal
22
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
1467-5463
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maxat Kulmanov1383.86
Fatima Zohra Smaili291.15
Xin Gao359864.98
Robert Hoehndorf466753.18