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AAAI
2008
13 years 9 months ago
On the Decidability of Role Mappings between Modular Ontologies
Many semantic web applications require support for mappings between roles (or properties) defined in multiple independently developed ontology modules. Distributed Description Log...
Jie Bao, George Voutsadakis, Giora Slutzki, Vasant...
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Incremental formalization of document annotations through ontology-based paraphrasing
For the manual semantic markup of documents to become widespread, users must be able to express annotations that conform to ontologies (or schemas) that have shared meaning. Howev...
Jim Blythe, Yolanda Gil
CADE
2002
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Reasoning with Expressive Description Logics: Theory and Practice
Abstract. Description Logics are a family of class based knowledge representation formalisms characterised by the use of various constructors to build complex classes from simpler ...
Ian Horrocks
TYPES
1993
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
The Expressive Power of Structural Operational Semantics with Explicit Assumptions
Abstract. We explore the expressive power of the formalism called Natural Operational Semantics, NOS, introduced by Burstall and Honsell for defining the operational semantics of ...
Marino Miculan
JAIR
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Modular Reuse of Ontologies: Theory and Practice
In this paper, we propose a set of tasks that are relevant for the modular reuse of ontologies. In order to formalize these tasks as reasoning problems, we introduce the notions o...
Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ian Horrocks, Yevgeny Kazako...