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  "abstract": "Building 3D geological models from sparse observations relies on expert interpretation whose reasoning is rarely documented, making models difficult to validate and reproduce. An ontology-based system, built around the Minimal Ontology for Geological Interpretation (MOGI) and a Geological Interpretation Process (GIP), was recently proposed to make this reasoning explicit. It formalizes interpretation as an iterative cycle and records every reasoning step as a trace. However, two decisions of this cycle, which situations to interpret next and which geological explanation to assign to them, are currently made randomly or with simple heuristics. We propose to learn these decisions from past reasoning traces, each trace is encoded as a graph labelled with a quality score. A Relational Graph Convolutional Network (R-GCN)-based evaluator is trained to predict this score and guide decisions during the interpretation cycle. In a proof-of-concept on a synthetic fold dataset, the evaluator ranks interpretation states with a Pearson correlation of 0.98.",
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  "title": "Learning to Guide Ontology-Driven Geological Interpretation with Graph Neural Networks",
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