Abstract
The rise of data science, the inherent dirtiness of data, and the proliferation of vast data providers have increased the value proposition of Semantic Types. Semantic Types are a way of encoding contextual information onto a data schema that informs the user about the definitional meaning of data, its broader context, and relationships to other types. We increasingly see a world where providing structure to this information, attached directly to data, will enable both people and systems to better understand the content of a dataset and the ability to efficiently automate data tasks such as validation, mapping/joins, and eventually machine learning. While ontological systems exist, they have not had widespread adoption due to challenges in mapping to operational datasets and lack of specificity of entity-types. Additionally, the validation checks associated with data are stored in code bases separate from the datasets that are distributed. In this paper, we address both challenges holistically by proposing a system that efficiently maps and encodes functional meaning on Semantic Types.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.naacl-industry.21
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 6: Industry Track)
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Editors:
- Yi Yang, Aida Davani, Avi Sil, Anoop Kumar
- Venue:
- NAACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 248–265
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.naacl-industry.21
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2024.naacl-industry.21
- Cite (ACL):
- Sachin Konan, Larry Rudolph, and Scott Affens. 2024. Automating the Generation of a Functional Semantic Types Ontology with Foundational Models. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 6: Industry Track), pages 248–265, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Automating the Generation of a Functional Semantic Types Ontology with Foundational Models (Konan et al., NAACL 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2024.naacl-industry.21.pdf