Adding Fake Facts
to Ontologies
Fabian M. Suchanek
(Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
David Gross-Amblard
(University of Rennes 1)
(work done at INRIA Saclay)
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ElvisPedia
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Theft of Ontologies
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Ontological data can be re-used without consent of the owner
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Major Ontologies
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Many major ontologies are available under a license that
requires giving credit when the data is re-published:
YAGO
SUMO
CC-BY
CC-BY-ND
CC-BY
GFDL
CC-BY
GPL
CC-BY
Require attribution
when re-used
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Adding Fake Facts
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We propose to add a few smartly chosen false facts to the ontology.
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Proof of Ownership
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If the fake facts appear in the other ontology...
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Adding Fake Facts
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If the fake facts appear in the other ontology...
... they act as proof of ownership.
But can't we spot these facts?
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We don't know.
Come try it at our demo!
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