Names Are Not Good Enough: Reasoning over Taxonomic Change in the Andropogon Complex.
Semantic web(2016)
摘要
We present a novel, logic-based solution to the challenge of reconciling the meanings of taxonomic names across multiple biological taxonomies. The challenge arises due to limitations inherent in using type-anchored taxonomic names as identifiers of granular semantic similarities and differences being expressed in original and revised taxonomic classifications. We address this challenge through: (1) the use of taxonomic concept labels - thereby individuating name usages according to particular sources and allowing each taxonomy to be recognized separately; (2) sets of user-provided Region Connection Calculus articulations among concepts (RCC-5: congruence, proper inclusion, inverse proper inclusion, overlap, exclusion); and (3) the use of an Answer Set Programming-based reasoning toolkit that ingests these constraints to infer and visualize consistent multi-taxonomy alignments. The feasibility of this approach is demonstrated with a use case involving pairwise alignments of 11 non-congruent classifications of Eastern United States grass entities variously assigned to the Andropogon glomeratus-virginicus 'complex' over an interval of 126 years. Analyses of name: meaning identity reveal that, on average, taxonomic names are reliable identifiers of taxonomic non-/congruence for approximately 60% of the 127 merge regions obtained in 12 pairwise alignments. The name: meaning cardinality over the entire time interval ranges from 1: 6 to 4: 1, with only 1: 36 names attaining the semantically ideal 1:1 ratio. We discuss the applicability of the RCC-5 alignment approach in the context of achieving logic-based integration of non-/congruent taxonomic concept hierarchies in dynamic biodiversity data environments.
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Answer set programming,biodiversity data integration,biological nomenclature,knowledge representation and reasoning,name: meaning cardinality,ontology alignment,region connection calculus,systematics,taxonomic concepts,visualization
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