Conceptual Clustering Applied to Ontologies

Abstract. A clustering method is presented which can be applied to semantically annotated resources in the context of ontological knowledge bases. This method can be used to discover emerging groupings of resources expressed in the standard ontology languages. The method exploits a language-independent semidistance measure over the space of resources, that is based on their semantics w.r.t. a number of dimensions corresponding to a committee of discriminating features represented by concept descriptions. A maximally discriminating group of features can be constructed through a feature construction method based on genetic programming. The evolutionary clustering algorithm proposed is based on the notion of medoids applied to relational representations. It is able to induce a set of clusters by means of a fitness function based on a discernibility criterion. An experimentation with some ontologies proves the feasibility of our method.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ECML
• Authors: Floriana Esposito, Nicola Fanizzi, Claudia d'Amato
• Keywords: Clustering Method, ECML 2007, Feature Construction Method, Machine Learning, Ontological Knowledge Bases