构建可复用的伦理决策模型框架,支持机器理解具体情境下的道德判断。
ApplE: A Modular Ontology of Applied Ethics and Event Context for Ethical Decision Modeling
- 将伦理理论与事件上下文整合为模块化知识框架,实现结构化建模。
- 在医疗场景案例中验证了模型对伦理推理与一致性检查的有效性。
- 符合开放数据原则,适合用于伦理型AI系统与智能决策应用开发。
应用伦理学需结合具体情境(如主体、行为、时间空间)和理论概念(如效用、美德、权利、义务)进行道德决策。然而,伦理判断常具抽象性、情境依赖性和语义异质性,难以形式化表达。本文提出ApplE——一个统一且模块化的应用伦理本体,通过融合伦理理论与事件上下文,构建伦理原则、主体、行为、后果、意图与领域间的语义关系。采用改进版简化敏捷本体开发方法(SAMOD)进行迭代构建,并邀请领域专家参与。在医疗领域的用例中,验证了ApplE在表示能力与推理支持上的有效性。此外,通过SAMOD三重测试流程完成评估。ApplE遵循FAIR原则,可作为伦理型AI系统与本体驱动应用的可复用语义建模资源。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Applied ethics applies ethical decision-making to domain-specific contexts using contextual information such as agents, actions, temporal and spatial settings, and theoretical constructs such as utility, virtues, rights, and duties. However, representing an ethical decision is challenging as it may be abstract, context-sensitive, and semantically heterogeneous. Nevertheless, important ethical and contextual factors can be formally modeled to support structured ethical reasoning. Knowledge representation and reasoning provide a mechanism to translate abstract ethical concepts into machine-interpretable conceptual structures in the context of an event. To achieve this, we propose ApplE, an Applied Ethics ontology that models ethical theory and event context within a unified and modular conceptual framework for ethical decision-making. The ontology was developed using a modified version of the Simplified Agile Methodology for Ontology Development (SAMOD), which facilitates iterative refinement of classes and relationships, as well as the participation of a domain expert. The modular development of ApplE combines Ethics Theory with Event Context to capture semantic relationships between ethical principles, agents, actions, consequences, intentions, and domains. Using ApplE, we modeled a use case from the medical domain to demonstrate the ontology's representational expressivity and reasoning capabilities. In addition to ontological reasoning and consistency checks, ApplE is also evaluated using the three-fold testing process of SAMOD. ApplE follows the FAIR principles and is positioned to be used as a reusable semantic and conceptual modeling resource for ethical AI systems and ontology-driven applications.
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