Ontologies
Explanation Ontology in Action: A Clinical Use-Case
Chari, Shruthi, Seneviratne, Oshani, Gruen, Daniel M., Foreman, Morgan A., Das, Amar K., McGuinness, Deborah L.
We addressed the problem of a lack of semantic representation for user-centric explanations and different explanation types in our Explanation Ontology (https://purl.org/heals/eo). Such a representation is increasingly necessary as explainability has become an important problem in Artificial Intelligence with the emergence of complex methods and an uptake in high-precision and user-facing settings. In this submission, we provide step-by-step guidance for system designers to utilize our ontology, introduced in our resource track paper, to plan and model for explanations during the design of their Artificial Intelligence systems. We also provide a detailed example with our utilization of this guidance in a clinical setting.
A Framework for Reasoning on Probabilistic Description Logics
Cota, Giuseppe, Zese, Riccardo, Bellodi, Elena, Lamma, Evelina, Riguzzi, Fabrizio
While there exist several reasoners for Description Logics, very few of them can cope with uncertainty. BUNDLE is an inference framework that can exploit several OWL (non-probabilistic) reasoners to perform inference over Probabilistic Description Logics. In this chapter, we report the latest advances implemented in BUNDLE. In particular, BUNDLE can now interface with the reasoners of the TRILL system, thus providing a uniform method to execute probabilistic queries using different settings. BUNDLE can be easily extended and can be used either as a standalone desktop application or as a library in OWL API-based applications that need to reason over Probabilistic Description Logics. The reasoning performance heavily depends on the reasoner and method used to compute the probability. We provide a comparison of the different reasoning settings on several datasets.
Building Large Lexicalized Ontologies from Text: a Use Case in Automatic Indexing of Biotechnology Patents
Nédellec, Claire, Golik, Wiktoria, Aubin, Sophie, Bossy, Robert
This paper presents a tool, TyDI, and methods experimented in the building of a termino-ontology, i.e. a lexicalized ontology aimed at fine-grained indexation for semantic search applications. TyDI provides facilities for knowledge engineers and domain experts to efficiently collaborate to validate, organize and conceptualize corpus extracted terms. A use case on biotechnology patent search demonstrates TyDI's potential.
OWL2Vec*: Embedding of OWL Ontologies
Chen, Jiaoyan, Hu, Pan, Jimenez-Ruiz, Ernesto, Holter, Ole Magnus, Antonyrajah, Denvar, Horrocks, Ian
Semantic embedding of knowledge graphs has been widely studied and used for prediction and statistical analysis tasks across various domains such as Natural Language Processing and the Semantic Web. However, less attention has been paid to developing robust methods for embedding OWL (Web Ontology Language) ontologies. In this paper, we propose a language model based ontology embedding method named OWL2Vec*, which encodes the semantics of an ontology by taking into account its graph structure, lexical information and logic constructors. Our empirical evaluation with three real world datasets suggests that OWL2Vec* benefits from these three different aspects of an ontology in class membership prediction and class subsumption prediction tasks. Furthermore, OWL2Vec* often significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in our experiments.
Visual Semantic Multimedia Event Model for Complex Event Detection in Video Streams
Multimedia data is highly expressive and has traditionally been very difficult for a machine to interpret. Middleware systems such as complex event processing (CEP) mine patterns from data streams and send notifications to users in a timely fashion. Presently, CEP systems have inherent limitations to process multimedia streams due to its data complexity and the lack of an underlying structured data model. In this work, we present a visual event specification method to enable complex multimedia event processing by creating a semantic knowledge representation derived from low-level media streams. The method enables the detection of high-level semantic concepts from the media streams using an ensemble of pattern detection capabilities. The semantic model is aligned with a multimedia CEP engine deep learning models to give flexibility to end-users to build rules using spatiotemporal event calculus. This enhances CEP capability to detect patterns from media streams and bridge the semantic gap between highly expressive knowledge-centric user queries to the low-level features of the multimedia data. We have built a small traffic event ontology prototype to validate the approach and performance. The paper contribution is threefold-i) we present a knowledge graph representation for multimedia streams, ii) a hierarchal event network to detect visual patterns from media streams and iii) define complex pattern rules for complex multimedia event reasoning using event calculus.
The design and implementation of Language Learning Chatbot with XAI using Ontology and Transfer Learning
Shi, Nuobei, Zeng, Qin, Lee, Raymond
In this paper, we proposed a transfer learning-based English language learning chatbot, whose output generated by GPT-2 can be explained by corresponding ontology graph rooted by fine-tuning dataset. We design three levels for systematically English learning, including phonetics level for speech recognition and pronunciation correction, semantic level for specific domain conversation, and the simulation of free-style conversation in English - the highest level of language chatbot communication as free-style conversation agent. For academic contribution, we implement the ontology graph to explain the performance of free-style conversation, following the concept of XAI (Explainable Artificial Intelligence) to visualize the connections of neural network in bionics, and explain the output sentence from language model. From implementation perspective, our Language Learning agent integrated the mini-program in WeChat as front-end, and fine-tuned GPT-2 model of transfer learning as back-end to interpret the responses by ontology graph.
Towards a Modular Ontology for Space Weather Research
Shimizu, Cogan, McGranaghan, Ryan, Eberhart, Aaron, Kellerman, Adam C.
The interactions between the Sun, interplanetary space, near Earth space environment, the Earth's surface, and the power grid are, perhaps unsurprisingly, very complicated. The study of such requires the collaboration between many different organizations spanning the public and private sectors. Thus, an important component of studying space weather is the integration and analysis of heterogeneous information. As such, we have developed a modular ontology to drive the core of the data integration and serve the needs of a highly interdisciplinary community. This paper presents our preliminary modular ontology, for space weather research, as well as demonstrate a method for adaptation to a particular use-case, through the use of existential rules and explicit typing.
Aspect-Oriented Security Hardening of UML Design Models - Programmer Books
This book comprehensively presents a novel approach to the systematic security hardening of software design models expressed in the standard UML language. It combines model-driven engineering and the aspect-oriented paradigm to integrate security practices into the early phases of the software development process. To this end, a UML profile has been developed for the specification of security hardening aspects on UML diagrams. In addition, a weaving framework, with the underlying theoretical foundations, has been designed for the systematic injection of security aspects into UML models. The work is organized as follows: chapter 1 presents an introduction to software security, model-driven engineering, UML and aspect-oriented technologies.
Biomedical Event Extraction on Graph Edge-conditioned Attention Networks with Hierarchical Knowledge Graphs
Huang, Kung-Hsiang, Yang, Mu, Peng, Nanyun
Biomedical event extraction is critical in understanding biomolecular interactions described in scientific corpus. One of the main challenges is to identify nested structured events that are associated with non-indicative trigger words. We propose to incorporate domain knowledge from Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) to a pre-trained language model via Graph Edge-conditioned Attention Networks (GEANet) and hierarchical graph representation. To better recognize the trigger words, each sentence is first grounded to a sentence graph based on a jointly modeled hierarchical knowledge graph from UMLS. The grounded graphs are then propagated by GEANet, a novel graph neural networks for enhanced capabilities in inferring complex events. On BioNLP 2011 GENIA Event Extraction task, our approach achieved 1.41% F1 and 3.19% F1 improvements on all events and complex events, respectively. Ablation studies confirm the importance of GEANet and hierarchical KG.