Applying the Closed World Assumption to SUMO-based Ontologies
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In commonsense knowledge representation, the Open World Assumption is adopted as a general standard strategy for the design, construction and use of ontologies, e.g. in OWL. This strategy limits the inferencing capabilities of any system using these ontologies because non-asserted statements could be assumed to be alternatively true or false in different interpretations. In this paper, we investigate the application of the Closed World Assumption to enable a better exploitation of the structural knowledge encoded in a SUMO-based ontology. To that end, we explore three different Closed World Assumption formulations for subclass and disjoint relations in order to reduce the ambiguity of the knowledge encoded in first-order logic ontologies. We evaluate these formulations on a practical experimentation using a very large commonsense benchmark automatically obtained from the knowledge encoded in WordNet through its mapping to SUMO. The results show that the competency of the ontology improves more than 47 Assumption. As conclusion, applying the Closed World Assumption automatically to first-order logic ontologies reduces their expressed ambiguity and more commonsense questions can be answered.
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