Fuzzy Ontology Overview

Truong Hai Bang

University of Information Technology

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Introduction
In computer science and information science,
an ontology is a formal representation of the
knowledge within a domain.
 It is used to reason about the properties of
that domain, and may be used to describe the
domain.
Combination between Ontology and Fuzzy
theory has create a new way to describe even
the uncertain knowledge.

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Ontology Definition
An ontology is a 4-tuple O = (C, P, R, A),
where:
◦ C is a set of concepts defined for the domain.
◦ P is a set of concept properties.
◦ R is a set of binary semantic relations defined.
between concepts in C.
◦ A is a set of axioms.

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Ontology Definition (cont.)
 Example of Concepts and Relations:

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Domain Ontology
A domain ontology (or domain-specific ontology)
models a specific domain, or part of the world.
It represents the particular meanings of terms as
they apply to that domain.
There are four layers defined in the domain
ontology, including
◦ Domain layer
◦ Category layer
◦ Event layer,
◦ And class layer.

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Domain Ontology (cont)
Structure of domain Ontology

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Fuzzy Ontology Definition
A fuzzy ontology is an extended ontology with
fuzzy concepts and fuzzy relationships.

Crisp Ontology
Crisp Concepts Crisp Relations

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Fuzzy Ontology Definition (cont.)
A fuzzy domain ontology is a 4-tuple OF(C, PF, RF, AF) where
◦ C is a set of concepts.
◦ PF is a set of properties, each as a 5-tuple pF(c, vF, qF, f, U):
 c ∈ C is an ontology concept.
 vF represents property values.
 qF models linguistic qualifiers.
 f is the restriction facets on vF.
 U is the universe of discourse.
◦ RF is a set of inter-concept relations between concepts, each is
defined as rF(c1, c2, t, sF, U):
 c1, c2 ∈ C are ontology concepts,
 t represents relation type
 U is the universe of discourse
 sF models relation strengths and is fuzzy concept at U.
◦ AF is a set of fuzzy rules.

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Fuzzy Ontology Definition (cont.)
 Example of fuzzy relations between concepts:

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Fuzzy Ontology Advantages
Problems Compared Fuzzy Ontology Crisp Ontology
Multiple-Located terms Does not occur Issue for disambiguation
Query expansion Depends on membership Depends on location
value only
Customization Simple, based on Requires new ontology
modification and/or ontology sharing
membership values
Storage required Depends on the number Depends on number of
of term in the ontology terms in the ontology
and the membership
values of the relations,
can be smaller or larger
than crisp
Knowledge Related to use Related to structure.
representation

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Fuzzy Ontology Applications
 One of the most important
applications is Semantic
Web.
 AI, systems engineering,
software engineering,
biomedical informatics,
library science, enterprise
bookmarking, and
information architecture
 And, more generally, the
Internet, Electronic
Commerce, Knowledge
Management.

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Fuzzy Ontology Applications (cont.)
Another important application is
information retrieval.
More specifically, medical information
retrieval, data mining… have been the
subject of considerable research.

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Fuzzy Ontology Applications (cont.)
Fuzzy Ontology changes the way of
software development:
◦ Knowledge base will be the core.
◦ Reasoning will be automated.
◦ No more: Solution not found!

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Fuzzy Ontology Applications (cont.)
 Fuzzy Ontologies in OWL-DL language:

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Research Directions
Declare Databases
Fuzzy structure
Ontologies
Knowledge
bases
Provide
domain
description

Software Domain-
agents Problem- independent
solving applications
methods

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Conclusion
Fuzzy ontology is an extension of
Domain ontology with Fuzzy relations
and rules.
Fuzzy concepts is more flexible than crisp
ones and promise a more complete way to
describe the world.

THANK YOU

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