A Better Uncle For OWL

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Markus Krötzsch, Frederick Maier, Adila A. Krisnadhi, Pascal Hitzler

A Better Uncle for OWL: Nominal Schemas for Integrating Rules and Ontologies



Abstract. We propose a description-logic style extension of OWL 2 with nominal schemas which can be used like “variable nominal classes” within axioms. This feature allows ontology languages to express arbitrary DL-safe rules (as expressible in SWRL or RIF) in their native syntax. We show that adding nominal schemas to OWL 2 does not increase the worst-case reasoning complexity, and we identify a novel tractable language SROELV3(⊓,×) that is versatile enough to capture the lightweight languages OWL EL and OWL RL.

Published at WWW2011 (Conference paper)

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  • Markus Krötzsch, Frederick Maier, Adila A. Krisnadhi, Pascal Hitzler. A Better Uncle for OWL: Nominal Schemas for Integrating Rules and Ontologies. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on the World Wide Web (WWW-11), pp. 645–654. ACMProperty "Publisher" has a restricted application area and cannot be used as annotation property by a user. 2011.

Topics

Semantic Web, Description Logics, Rule languages