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This study introduces a constructivist ontology relation learning (CORL) method to automatically depict abstract ontology relations. CORL effectively captures associative semantic relations, improving knowledge ontology representation.

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Area of Science:

Artificial Intelligence
Knowledge Representation
Cognitive Science

Background:

Ontology relations are crucial for knowledge representation but difficult to automatically construct due to their abstract nature.
Existing methods for ontology relation learning focus on concept hierarchies or similarities.
Human associative semantic cognition provides inspiration for novel approaches.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose a novel constructivist ontology relation learning (CORL) method inspired by human associative cognition.
To represent knowledge concepts as patterns and relations as structures among patterns.
To enhance the automatic construction and representation of ontology relations.

Main Methods:

Developed a constructivist ontology relation learning (CORL) method based on constructivist learning theory.
Modeled knowledge concepts as abstract pattern tokens.
Integrated an associative random walk mechanism (ARWM) into an extended Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model.

Main Results:

CORL effectively learns associative semantic relations among concept words.
The method demonstrates novel characteristics in representing knowledge ontologies.
Experimental analysis validates the effectiveness of CORL compared to existing methods.

Conclusions:

The proposed CORL method offers an effective approach for automatic ontology relation learning.
CORL enhances the representation of knowledge ontologies by capturing associative semantic relationships.
This work contributes to advancing knowledge representation and semantic cognition research.