Incremental Enrichment of Ontologies through Feature-based Pattern Variations

ABSTRACT In this paper, we propose a model to enrich an ontology by incrementally extending the relations through variations of patterns. In order to generalize initial patterns, combinations of features are considered as candidate patterns. The candidate patterns are used to extract relations from Wikipedia, which are sorted out according to reliability based on corpus frequency. Selected patterns then are used to extract relations, while extracted relations are again used to extend the patterns of the relation. Through making variations of patterns in incremental enrichment process, the range of pattern selection is broaden and refined, which can increase coverage and accuracy of relations extracted. In the experiments with single-feature based pattern models, we observe that the features of lexical, headword, and hypernym provide reliable information, while POS and syntactic features provide general information that is useful for enrichment of relations. Based on observations on the feature types that are appropriate for each syntactic unit type, we propose a pattern model based on the composition of features as our ongoing work.Key Words:ontology enrichment, relation extraction, pattern variation, ontology evolution, incremental relational learning