Evidence/discovery-based evolving ontology (EDBEO)

This paper presents a proposal for the development of an ontology evolution strategy which refines ontological relations in scientific ontologies. In addition to experts´ consensus, it is desirable to define ontological relations between any two concepts in a scientific ontology based on scientific evidence. To address this issue, we can relate ontological relations to different research results obtained from various studies. To implement this solution, our envisaged evidence/discovery-based methodology integrates a higher-level ontology (systematic review ontology) into a systematic review agent which employs a Fuzzy Inference System in order to automatically modify ontological relations of a domain ontology based on the evidence received from information resources. The evidence/discovery-based methodology will further use the domain ontology to discover novel connections between distinct literatures, thereby, enrich its conceptualization.