Type uncertainty in ontologically-grounded qualitative probabilistic matching

  • Authors:
  • David Poole;Clinton Smyth

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia;GeoReference Online Ltd., Vancouver, BC, Canada

  • Venue:
  • ECSQARU'05 Proceedings of the 8th European conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper is part of a project to match real-world descriptions of instances of objects to models of objects. We use a rich ontology to describe instances and models at multiple levels of detail and multiple levels of abstraction. The models are described using qualitative probabilities. This paper is about the problem of type uncertainty; what if we have a qualitative distribution over the types. For example allowing a model to specify that a meeting is always scheduled in a building, usually in a civic building, and never a shopping mall can help an agent find a meeting even if it is unsure about the address.