An iterative approach to build relevant ontology-aware data-driven models

  • Authors:
  • Rallou Thomopoulos;SéBastien Destercke;Brigitte Charnomordic;Iyan Johnson;JoëL AbéCassis

  • Affiliations:
  • IATE Joint Research Unit, UMR1208, CIRAD-INRA-Supagro-Univ. Montpellier II, 2 place P. Viala, F-34060 Montpellier cedex 1, France and INRIA GraphIK, LIRMM, 161 rue Ada, F-34392 Montpellier cedex 5 ...;HEUDIASYC Joint Research Unit, UMR 7253, Centre de recherche de Royallieu, UTC, F-60205 Compiegne cedex, France;MISTEA Joint Research Unit,UMR729, INRA-SupAgro, 2 place P. Viala, F-34060 Montpellier, France;IATE Joint Research Unit, UMR1208, CIRAD-INRA-Supagro-Univ. Montpellier II, 2 place P. Viala, F-34060 Montpellier cedex 1, France and MISTEA Joint Research Unit,UMR729, INRA-SupAgro, 2 place P. Vi ...;IATE Joint Research Unit, UMR1208, CIRAD-INRA-Supagro-Univ. Montpellier II, 2 place P. Viala, F-34060 Montpellier cedex 1, France

  • Venue:
  • Information Sciences: an International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In many fields involving complex environments or living organisms, data-driven models are useful to make simulations in order to extrapolate costly experiments and to design decision-support tools. Learning methods can be used to build interpretable models from data. However, to be really useful, such models must be trusted by their users. From this perspective, the domain expert knowledge can be collected and modeled to help guiding the learning process and to increase the confidence in the resulting models, as well as their relevance. Another issue is to design relevant ontologies to formalize complex knowledge. Interpretable predictive models can help in this matter. In this paper, we propose a generic iterative approach to design ontology-aware and relevant data-driven models. It is based upon an ontology to model the domain knowledge and a learning method to build the interpretable models (decision trees in this paper). Subjective and objective evaluations are both involved in the process. A case study in the domain of Food Industry demonstrates the interest of this approach.