Reasoning-Supported Interactive Revision of Knowledge Bases

Nadeschda NikitinaNadeschda Nikitina, Sebastian RudolphSebastian Rudolph, Birte GlimmBirte Glimm

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Nadeschda Nikitina, Sebastian Rudolph, Birte Glimm
Reasoning-Supported Interactive Revision of Knowledge Bases
Technical Report, Institut AIFB, KIT, April 2011

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KurzfassungAbstract
Quality control is an essential task within ontology development projects especially when the knowledge formalization is partially automatized. In this paper, we propose a reasoning-based, interactive approach to support the revision of formalized knowledge. We state consistency criteria for revision states and introduce the notion of revision closure, based on which the revision of ontologies is partially automatized. Additionally, we
propose a notion of axiom impact which is used to determine a beneficial order of axiom evaluation in order to further increase the effectiveness of ontology revision. Finally, we develop the notion of decision spaces, which are structures for calculating and updating the revision closure and axiom
impact. The use of decision spaces saves on average 75% of the costly reasoning operations during a revision.
Forschungsgruppe:Research Group: Computational LogicComputational Logic

@techreport{NRG2011,
  author      = {Nadeschda Nikitina and Sebastian Rudolph and Birte Glimm},
  title       = {Reasoning-Supported Interactive Revision of Knowledge Bases},
  institution = {Institut {AIFB,} {KIT}},
  year        = {2011},
  month       = {April}
}