Abstract. One of the most frequently used inference services of description logic reasoners classifies all named classes of OWL ontologies into a subsumption hierarchy. Due to emer...
Distributed Description Logics (DDL) enable reasoning with multiple ontologies interconnected by directional semantic mapping, called bridge rules. Bridge rules map concepts of a s...
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 ...
fe. Althoughthose legal concepts are abstract in the sense that there always exist possibilities to interpret them in various ways, lawyers seem to understand themas real things at...
We present a new algorithm for reasoning in the description logic SHIQ, which is the most prominent fragment of the Web Ontology Language OWL. The algorithm is based on ordered bi...