The interpretation of medical evidence is normally presented in terms of a controlled, but diversely expressed specialist vocabulary and natural language phrases. Such informally ...
Bo Hu, Srinandan Dasmahapatra, Paul H. Lewis, Nige...
Modularity is a key requirement for large ontologies in order to achieve re-use, maintainability, and evolution. Mechanisms for ‘normalisation’ to achieve analogous aims are s...
Ontologies can be used to provide an enriched vocabulary for the formulation of queries over instance data. We identify query emptiness and predicate emptiness as two central reas...
Franz Baader, Meghyn Bienvenu, Carsten Lutz, Frank...
The paper presents a prototype of a system for querying the Web in natural language (French) for a limited domain. The domain knowledge, represented in description logics (DL), is ...
Answering conjunctive queries (CQs) has been recognized as a key task for the usage of Description Logics (DLs) in a number of applications, and has thus been studied by many auth...