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Conference Papers Year : 2009

Integrating ontological knowledge for iterative causal discovery and vizualisation

Abstract

Bayesian networks (BN) have been used for prediction or classification tasks in various domains. In the first applications, the BN structure was causally defined by expert knowledge. Then, algorithms were proposed in order to learn the BN structure from observational data. Generally, these algorithms can only find a structure encoding the right conditional independencies but not all the causal relationships. Some new domains appear where the model will only be learnt in order to discover these causal relationships. To this end, we will focus on discovering causal relations in order to get Causal Bayesian Networks (CBN). To learn such models, interventional data (i.e. samples conditioned on the particular values of one or more variables that have been experimentally manipulated) are required. These interventions are usually very expensive to perform, therefore the choice of variables to experiment on can be vital when the number of experimentations is restricted. In many cases, available ontologies provide high level knowledge for the same domain under study. Consequently, using this semantical knowledge can turn out of a big utility to improve causal discovery. This article proposes a new method for learning CBNs from observational data and interventions. We first extend the greedy approach for perfect observational and experimental data proposed in [13], by adding a new step based on the integration of ontological knowledge, which will allow us to choose efficiently the interventions to perform in order to obtain the complete CBN. Then, we propose an enriched visualization for better understanding of the causal graphs.
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hal-00412286 , version 1 (17-04-2020)

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Montassar Ben Messaoud, Philippe Leray, Nahla Ben Amor. Integrating ontological knowledge for iterative causal discovery and vizualisation. ECSQARU 2009, 2009, Verona, Italy. pp.168-179, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-02906-6_16⟩. ⟨hal-00412286⟩
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