Generative Ontology Induction: Domain-Agnostic Schema Discovery from Document Corpora Using Large Language Models
This paper introduces Generative Ontology Induction (GOI), a domain-agnostic framework that induces a generative blueprint—entities, dimensions, properties, relationships, and constraints—from a corpus of examples and exports it as a typed graph (six node types, seven edge types) in YAML/JSON. A novel evaluation metric, Node Coverage Score, measures structural coverage. Validation on four diverse ontologies shows 95-100% coverage with GOI prompting, while a generic template drops significantly on unfamiliar domains.
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Title:Generative Ontology Induction: Domain-Agnostic Schema Discovery from Document Corpora Using Large Language Models
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Abstract:Ontology engineering remains a critical bottleneck in knowledge-intensive AI systems. Existing automated approaches either depend on predefined schemas, operate within narrow domains, or produce unstructured outputs unsuitable for downstream pipelines.
We introduce Generative Ontology Induction (GOI), a domain-agnostic framework that induces a generative blueprint - entities, dimensions, properties, relationships, and constraints - from a corpus of examples and exports it as a typed graph (six node types, seven edge types) in YAML/JSON. We introduce the Node Coverage Score, a novel evaluation metric that measures the fraction of structural ontology nodes (classes, properties, and dimensions) appearing in generated outputs.
A controlled generative validation on four contrasting ontologies - a familiar Software Services Invoice schema, a custom Job Description Ontology, a confidential Pain-Management Clinical Visit Record Ontology, and a Professional Services Contract & Statement of Work Ontology - shows that GOI-prompted generation covers 95-100% of the structural backbone in every case; a generic three-field template holds at 97.8% on the invoice schema but drops to 52.2% on the Job Description Ontology, 62.2% on the Pain-Management ontology, and 78.3% on the Professional Services Contract ontology. The structural coverage holds regardless of how familiar the document type is to the model.
Comments: 10 pages, 2 figures, 1 table. LNCS format
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Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
ACM classes: I.2.4; I.2.7; H.2.1
Cite as: arXiv:2607.16201 [cs.AI]
(or arXiv:2607.16201v1 [cs.AI] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.16201
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From: Sergei Sergienko [view email] [v1] Fri, 1 May 2026 14:36:06 UTC (1,209 KB)
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