OWL Support for (Some) Non-Deductive Scenarios of Ontology Usage

Abstract. Applications of ontologies exist that go beyond standard deductive reasoning and rather have the character of empirical discovery in knowledge/data. We analyse the inventory of OWL with respect to two such applications, namely to pattern-based ontology matching and to ontology-aware knowledge discovery from databases.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: OWLED
• Authors: Vojtech Svátek, Miroslav Vacura, Martin Ralbovský, Ondrej Sváb-Zamazal, Bijan Parsia
• Keywords: Natural Language Processing, Ontology-aware Knowledge Discovery, OWLED 2008, Pattern-based Ontology Matching, Standard Deductive Reasoning