Towards Ontology-based Explainable Classification of Rare Events

Cardillo F. A., Straccia U.

Ontologies Explainable Classification of Rare Events  Statistical Relational Machine Learning 

Rare events (e.g. major floods, violent conflicts) are events that have potentially widespread and/or disastrous impact on society. The overall goal is to build a framework capable to classify, predict and explain such rare events. To do so, we envisage the usage of a mixture of sub-symbolic Machine Learning (ML) and Ontology-based Statistical Relatio-nal Learning (OSRL) techniques to generate rare events classifiers and predictors, which additionally may be mapped into natural language to ease human interpretability of the decision process.

Source: ISTI Working papers, pp.1–2, 2019