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Type Conference or Workshop Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Published in Proceedings Yes
Title On the evolution of ontologies using probabilistic description logics
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Thomas Scharrenbach
  • Abraham Bernstein
Presentation Type paper
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Event Title First ESWC Workshop on Inductive Reasoning and Machine Learning on the Semantic Web
Event Type workshop
Event Location Heraklion, Greece
Event Start Date June 1 - 2009
Event End Date June 1 - 2009
Abstract Text Exceptions play an important role in conceptualizing data, especially when new knowledge is introduced or existing knowledge changes. Furthermore, real-world data often is contradictory and uncertain. Current formalisms for conceptualizing data like Description Logics rely upon first-order logic. As a consequence, they are poor in addressing exceptional, inconsistent and uncertain data, in particular when evolving the knowledge base over time. This paper investigates the use of Probabilistic Description Logics as a formalism for the evolution of ontologies that conceptualize real-world data. Different scenarios are presented for the automatic handling of inconsistencies during ontology evolution.
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