Epistemic and statistical probabilistic ontologies
Fabrizio Riguzzi, Elena Bellodi, Evelina Lamma, Riccardo Zese · Institutional Research Information System University of Ferrara (University of Ferrara) · 2012
We present DISPONTE, a semantics for probabilistic ontologies that is based on the distribution semantics for probabilistic logic programs. In DISP\-ONTE the axioms of a probabilistic ontology can be annotated with an epistemic or a statistical probability. The epistemic probability represents a degree of confidence in the axiom, while the statistical probability considers the populations to which the axiom is applied.