Ontology engineering is a hard and error-prone task, in which small changes may lead to errors, or even produce an inconsistent ontology. As ontologies grow in size, the need for automated methods for repairing inconsistencies while preserving as much of the original knowledge as possible increases. Most previous approaches to this task are based on removing a few axioms from the ontology to regain consistency. We propose a new method based on weakening these axioms to make them less restrictive, employing the use of refinement operators. We introduce the theoretical framework for weakening DL ontologies, propose algorithms to repair ontologies based on the framework, and provide an analysis of the computational complexity. Through an empirical analysis made over real-life ontologies, we show that our approach preserves significantly more of the original knowledge of the ontology than removing axioms

Troquard, N., Confalonieri, R., Galliani, P., Peñaloza, R., Porello, D., Kutz, O. (2018). Repairing Ontologies via Axiom Weakening. In 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2018; New Orleans; United States; 2-7 February 2018 - Proceedings (pp.1981-1988). AAAI.

Repairing Ontologies via Axiom Weakening

Peñaloza R;
2018

Abstract

Ontology engineering is a hard and error-prone task, in which small changes may lead to errors, or even produce an inconsistent ontology. As ontologies grow in size, the need for automated methods for repairing inconsistencies while preserving as much of the original knowledge as possible increases. Most previous approaches to this task are based on removing a few axioms from the ontology to regain consistency. We propose a new method based on weakening these axioms to make them less restrictive, employing the use of refinement operators. We introduce the theoretical framework for weakening DL ontologies, propose algorithms to repair ontologies based on the framework, and provide an analysis of the computational complexity. Through an empirical analysis made over real-life ontologies, we show that our approach preserves significantly more of the original knowledge of the ontology than removing axioms
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ontologies, generalisation, repairs
English
32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2018) FEB 02-07
2018
McIlraith, SA; Weinberger, KQ
32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2018; New Orleans; United States; 2-7 February 2018 - Proceedings
978-157735800-8
2018
1981
1988
open
Troquard, N., Confalonieri, R., Galliani, P., Peñaloza, R., Porello, D., Kutz, O. (2018). Repairing Ontologies via Axiom Weakening. In 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2018; New Orleans; United States; 2-7 February 2018 - Proceedings (pp.1981-1988). AAAI.
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