arXiv AI

5W1H+Which: Context-Valid Semantic Indexing with Progressive Ontology Binding

The paper proposes 5W1H+Which, a semantic indexing framework that separates source‑grounded content extraction from progressive ontology binding. It organizes content into independently addressable units based on the 5W1H questions, while the "Which" component records links to versioned ontology elements, mapping relations, applicability scopes, and validation states. The design tracks business‑valid time, system knowledge time, and operational traces to enable revalidation and incremental maintenance, and illustrates its use with cloud migration and temporal policy examples.

arXiv AI
3d ago

Reimagining Enterprise RAG for Multi-Agent Systems: A Knowledge Layer That Organizes Before It Retrieves

The paper presents a knowledge layer that reorganizes enterprise Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for multi‑agent systems by placing an ontology at the artifact level rather than on extracted entities. Using a seven‑agent reverse‑engineering pipeline, the authors processed 241 repositories across 18 services to generate thousands of artifacts that capture scope, journeys, rules, and acceptance criteria, each tagged with provenance metadata. The resulting self‑describing catalog, sparse metadata registry, and navigation hypergraph enable queries to resolve to artifact identifiers, thereby structurally disambiguating near‑identical rules and improving retrieval accuracy. The system was built in under a week and helped root‑cause over 100 production defects and attribute 35 release regressions to specific rules and services.

By Garima Agrawal, Prasun Das, Akshay Sarvade, Priyanka L, Minisha N, Sravani Joshna, Hemath Manivannan, Lavanya Korada, Sambhrit Pattanayak, Srashti Gupta, Siddu R, Prasad Kalyanasundaram
arXiv AI
Sep 15

EvoOntology: A Self-Evolving Ontology Layer for Data Agents

EvoOntology introduces a self‑evolving ontology layer for data agents, encapsulating the ontology as an MCP server with schema, content, and tool layers. It enables agents to query and interact with the ontology at runtime, using a builder agent for autonomous construction and a self‑evolution loop that refines the ontology through attribution‑guided edits validated by backbone‑conditional evaluation. Experiments on three data‑agent benchmarks with four LLM backbones show that EvoOntology consistently outperforms strong baselines and existing semantic‑layer approaches, effectively bridging the agent‑data gap for heterogeneous data.

By Meiduo Chong, Shaolei Zhang, Ju Fan, Xiaoyong Du
arXiv AI
Jul 28

Retrieval-Augmented Generation of Ontologies from Relational Databases

arXiv:2506. 01232v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deriving OWL ontologies from relational database schemas supports semantic interoperability and downstream tasks such as knowledge graph population, ontology-based data access, graph-based learning, and automated reasoning.

By Nadeen Fathallah, Mojtaba Nayyeri, Athish A Yogi, Ratan Bahadur Thapa, Hans-Michael Tautenhahn, Anton Schnurpel, Steffen Staab
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 24

UniDataAgent: An Ontology-Grounded Agent for Enterprise Question-to-Report Automation

UniDataAgent (UniDataAgent) is an ontology‑grounded system designed to automate enterprise question‑to‑report tasks while preserving organization‑specific semantics. It separates semantic acquisition from online execution, with an Ontology Acquisition and Validation (OAV) stage that builds versioned ontologies from metadata, business knowledge, and expert input, and a Question‑to‑Report Execution (QRE) stage that retrieves semantic contracts, coordinates skills and data tools, validates results, and produces evidence‑linked reports. In a deployment across 27 enterprise tables and thousands of metric types, ontology construction took a few hours versus a week manually, and report generation took minutes versus several working days, achieving 95.0% strict accuracy on real business questions compared to 72.5% for document RAG.

By Yutai Duan, Yahui Zhao, Zhangti Li, Yu Ma, Zhenfeng Qi, Shaoyang Yuan, Jing Fan, Jie Liu
arXiv AI
Oct 9

An Explainable Header-Centric Framework for Large-Scale Semantic Table Interpretation and Data Quality Assessment

The paper introduces an explainable, header‑centric framework for semantic table interpretation and data quality assessment that operates solely on column headers. It maps headers to 39 interpretable types using curated lexical resources, applies validation rules to detect data quality issues, and aggregates these into a lightweight quality metric called HeadersIQ. The framework was evaluated on diverse benchmarks, demonstrating broad coverage of noisy real‑world metadata and providing a workflow for metadata‑driven semantic annotation, quality monitoring, and benchmark diagnosis.

By Marcelo Valentim Silva, Hannes Herrmann, Valerie Maxville
arXiv AI
Jul 3

ContextNest: Verifiable Context Governance for Autonomous AI Agent

arXiv:2607. 02116v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous AI agents increasingly depend on external knowledge stores, yet most retrieval pipelines provide relevance without durable guarantees of provenance, version identity, integrity, traceability, or point-in-time reconstruction.

By Misha Sulpovar (PromptOwl, LLC), Benn R. Konsynski (Goizueta Business School, Emory University), Qaish Kanchwala (IBM Research), Gabe Goodhart (IBM Research)