Inductive Learning of OWL 2 Property Chains

Abstract

We present an algorithm to inductively learn Web Ontology Language (OWL) 2 property chains to be used in object subproperty axioms. For efficiency, it uses specialized encodings and data structures based on hash-maps and sparse matrices. The algorithm is based on the frequent pattern search principles and uses a novel measure called s-support. We prove soundness and termination of the algorithm, and report on evaluation where we mine axioms from DBpedia 2016-10. We extensively discuss the 36 mined axioms and conclude that 30 (83%) of them are correct and could be added to the ontology.

Keywords

• Ontology learning
• owl 2
• property chains
• semantic web