Analogical Reasoning in Description Logics

  • Authors:
  • Claudia D'Amato;Nicola Fanizzi;Floriana Esposito

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy 70125;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy 70125;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy 70125

  • Venue:
  • Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web I
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This work presents a method founded in instance-based learning for inductive (memory-based) reasoning on ABoxes. The method, which exploits a semantic dissimilarity measure between concepts and instances, can be employed both to answer class membership queries and to predict new assertions that may be not logically entailed by the knowledge base. These tasks may be the baseline for other inductive methods for ontology construction and evolution. In a preliminary experimentation, we show that the method is sound and it is actually able to induce new assertions that might be acquired in the knowledge base.