LDK R Logics for Data and Knowledge Representation Towards Infrastructure, Methodology and Principles for Ontology Development Fausto Giunchiglia and Biswanath

LLogics for DData and KKnowledgeRRepresentation

Towards Infrastructure, Methodology and Principles for Ontology Development

Fausto Giunchiglia and Biswanath Dutta

Fall - 2011

Outline Introduction

Knowledge Representation (KR) Ontology

Domain Facet DERA Mapping Methodology Principle Demo : Domain Modeling

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Knowledge Representation (KR) “…is about building models of the world, of a particular

domain or problem, which allow automatic reasoning and interpretation”

Fundamental Goal is to represent knowledge in a manner that facilitates

inferencing new knowledge (i.e. drawing conclusions) from the knowledge base

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INTRODUCTION :: DOMAN :: FACET :: DERA :: MAPPING :: METHODOLOGY :: PRINCIPLE :: DEMO

According to (Crawford & Kuipers, 1990): It must have a reasonably compact syntax. It must have a well defined semantics so that one can

say precisely what is being represented. It must have sufficient expressive power to represent

human knowledge. It must have an efficient, powerful, and understandable

reasoning mechanism It must be usable to build large knowledge bases.

Crawford, J. M. & Kuipers, B. (1990). ALL: Formalizing Access Limited Reasoning. Principles of semantic networks: Explorations in the representation of knowledge, Morgan Kaufmann Pub., 299-330.

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Knowledge Representation Properties


Knowledge Representation Issues KR issues:

How do people represent knowledge? What is the nature of knowledge? Do we have domain specific schema or generic, domain

independent schema? How much it needs to be expressive?

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Ontology “formal, explicit specification of a shared

conceptualisation” – Gruber, 1993

Models a domain consisting of shared vocabulary with the definition of objects and/or concepts and their properties and relations

A structural framework for organizing information, and used as a form of KR in the fields like, AI, SW, Lib. Sc., Inf.

Architecture, etc.

Ontology as a language resource

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Ontology Properties Some of the ontological properties are:

Extendable

Reusable

Flexible

Robust …

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Domain An area of knowledge or field of study that we are

interested in or that we are communicating about

Example: Computer science, Artificial Intelligence, Soft computing,

Social networks, …Library science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Agriculture, Geography, …

Music, Movie, Sculpture, Painting, …Food, Wine, Cheese, …Space,…

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Domain (contd…) A domain can be decomposed into its several

constituents, and Each of them denotes a different aspect of entities

An example from Space domain: by region, by body of water, by landform, by populated places, by administrative division, by land, by agricultural land, by facility, by altitude, by climate,…

Each of these aspects is called facet

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Facet A hierarchy of homogeneous terms describing an

aspect of the domain, where each term in the hierarchy denotes a different concept

E.g., Body of water(e.g., River, Lake, Pond, Canal), Landform

(e.g., mountain, hill, ridge), facility (e.g., house, hut, farmhouse, hotel, resort), etc.

language facet (e.g., English, Hindi, Italian,), property facet, author facet, religion facet (e.g., Christian, Hindu, Muslim), commodity facet, etc.


DERA Is a Facet based knowledge organization framework It is is independent from any specific domain Allows building domain specific ontologies Is logically sound Has mapping to Description Logic Decidable

Designed by the UniTn KnowDive group

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DERA Surface Structure In the surface level, it has the following components:

D – Domain E – Entity R – Relation A – Attribute

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Domain (D) A DERA domain is a tuple of,

D = <E, R, A>

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Entity (E) an elementary component that consist of entity

classes and their instances, having either perceptual correlates or only conceptual existence in a domain in context

E = <{C} + {E'}> Where,

C = Entity class – consists of core classes representing the entities;

E' = Entity (also called object) – consists of real world named entities, that is the instantiation of the entity classes C.

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Entity (E) (contd…) Entity class (C) :

Represents the essence of the domain under consideration;

Consists of the core classes representing a domain in context

E.g., Consider the following classes in context of Space domain: Mountain, Hill, Lake, River, Canal, Province, City, Hotel,...

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Entity (E) (contd…) Entity (E') :

Are the real world named entities An extension of the real world entities

E.g., The Himalaya, Monte Bondone, Lake Garda, Trento, Povo, Hotel

America,...

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Entity (E) (contd….)

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E.g., An example from a domain Space


Relation (R) An elementary component consists of classes

defining the relations between entities

R = <{r}>

A relation is a link between two entities (E') Builds a semantic relation between the entities

E.g., Some relations (spatial) from Space domain: near,

adjacent, inside, before, center, sideways, etc.

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Attribute (A) An elementary component consists of classes

expressing the characteristics of entities

A = <{A'}, {C}>

An attribute is any property, qualitative, quantitative or descriptive measure of an entity

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Attribute (A) (contd…) Datatype Attribute (A'):

A datatype attribute includes the attribute classes that accounts the quality or quantity of an entity within a domain

E.g., latitude, longitude (of a place):

450 N, 180 S altitude (of a mountain):

8000ft, 2400m. high, low

depth (of a lake): deep, shallow 100ft., 20m.

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Attribute (A) (contd…) Descriptive Attribute (C):

It includes the attribute classes that describe the entities under a domain in consideration

The value of a descriptive attribute could consists of a single string or a set of strings

E.g., natural resource (of a place):

coal, natural gas, oil, … architectural style (of a castle):

{Classical architecture, Greek architecture, Roman architecture, Bauhaus, etc.}

history (of a place) ……….

climbing route (to a mountain) ……………….

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Mapping From DERA to DL

Entity classes (C) -> Concepts Relation (R) -> Roles Datatype attribute (A') -> Roles Descriptive attribute (C) -> Roles Entity (E') -> Individuals

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Methodology Step 1: Identification of the atomic concepts Step 2: Analysis (per genus et differentiam) Step 3: Synthesis Step 4: Standardization Step 5: Ordering

Following the above steps leads to the creation of a set of facets. They constitute a faceted representation scheme for a domain

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Ontological Principle Relevance (e.g.,breed is more realistic to classify the universe of cows

instead of by grade) Ascertainability (e.g., flowing body of water) Permanence (e.g., Spring- a natural flow of ground water) Exhaustiveness (e.g., to classify the universe of people, we need both

male and female) Exclusiveness (e.g., age and date of birth, both produce the same

divisions) Context (e.g., bank, a bank of a river, OR, a building of a financial

institution) Important: helps in reducing the homographs

Currency (e.g., metro station vs. subway station) Reticence (e.g., minority author, black man) Ordering

Important: ordering carries semantics as it provides implicit relations between the coordinate terms

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Step 1: identification of the atomic concepts

Sources of the concepts WordNet GeoNames (357/663 classes) TGN Literature

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Step 1: identification of the atomic concepts (2)

Some of the relevant sub-trees in WordNet are: location artifact, artefact body of water, water geological formation, formation land, ground, soil land, dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma

Note: not necessarily all the nodes in these sub-trees need to be part of the space domain. For example, the descendants of artifact, like, article, anachronism, block, etc. are not.

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Hill Stream River

• the well defined elevated land

• formed by the geological formation (where geological formation is a natural phenomenon)

• altitude in general >500m

• the well defined elevated land

• formed by the geological formation, where geological formation is a natural phenomenon

• altitude in general <500m

• a body of water

• a flowing body of water

• no fixed boundary

• confined within a bed and stream banks

• a body of water

• a flowing body of water

• no fixed boundary

• confined within a bed and stream banks

• larger than a brook

Mountain

Analysis

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Body of water

Flowing body of waterStream

BrookRiver

Stagnant body of waterPond

Landform

Natural depressionOceanic depression

Oceanic valleyOceanic trough

Continental depressionTroughValley

Natural elevationOceanic elevation

SeamountSubmarine hill

Continental elevationHillMountain

* each term in the above has gloss and is linked to synonym(ous) terms in the knowledge base

Synthesis

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Space [Domain] by geographical feature [Entity class]

by water formation by land formation by land by administrative division …

by relations [Relation] spatial relation

direction, internal, external, longitudinal, sideways, etc. functional relation (e.g., primary inflow, primary outflow) …

by attribute [Datatype attribute]

latitude Longitude dimension …

[Descriptive attribute] Natural resource Architectural style Time zone ph History …

Facets and sub-facets

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