Ontological Analysis of the Wikipedia Category System

Alexander Kirillovich, Olga Nevzorova

2018

Abstract

We analyse violations of the transitivity principle of the Wikipedia category system, i.e. the situations where articles from a subcategory doesn’t logically belong to its parent category. The causes of the violation have been analysed on the base of ontological modelling methodologies such as OntoClean. We propose a new approach to eliminating the violations. This approach is based on analysis of the relation of ontological dependence between categories. As a theoretical foundation of such analysis we propose a new deflationistic interpretation of the essential account of ontological dependence. The proof of concept has been evaluated on the category C:Mathematics. We are going to apply the proposed approach to derive a new large-scale domains hierarchy from the Wikipedia category system, and use it to provide BabelNet and DBpedia with fine-grained domain annotations.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kirillovich A. and Nevzorova O. (2018). Ontological Analysis of the Wikipedia Category System. In Proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2018) - Volume 2: KEOD; ISBN 978-989-758-330-8, SciTePress, pages 358-366. DOI: 10.5220/0006961803580366

in Bibtex Style

@conference{keod18,
author={Alexander Kirillovich and Olga Nevzorova},
title={Ontological Analysis of the Wikipedia Category System},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2018) - Volume 2: KEOD},
year={2018},
pages={358-366},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006961803580366},
isbn={978-989-758-330-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2018) - Volume 2: KEOD
TI - Ontological Analysis of the Wikipedia Category System
SN - 978-989-758-330-8
AU - Kirillovich A.
AU - Nevzorova O.
PY - 2018
SP - 358
EP - 366
DO - 10.5220/0006961803580366
PB - SciTePress