Dlfoil: Class expression learning revisited

Abstract

The paper presents the ultimate version of a concept learning system which can support typical ontology construction/evo-lution tasks through the induction of class expressions from groups of individual resources labeled by a domain expert. Stating the target task as a search problem, a Foil-like algorithm was devised based on the employment of refinement operators to traverse the version-space of candidate definitions for the target class. The algorithm has been further enhanced including a more general definition for the scoring function and better refinement operators. An experimental evaluation of the resulting new release of DL-Foil, which implements these improvements was carried out to assess its performance also in comparison with other concept learning systems.