Abstract. Approximation has been identified as a potential way of reducing the complexity of logical reasoning. Here we explore approximation for speeding up instance retrieval in...
Abstract. In this paper, we propose a general model of schema matching based on the following ideas: on the one hand, a schema is viewed as a context (namely as a partial and appro...
Abstract. Concept approximation is an inference service for Description Logics that provides “translations” of concept descriptions from one DL to a less expressive DL. In [4] ...
In this paper, we focus on lexical semantics, a key issue in Natural Language Processing (NLP) that tends to converge with conceptual Knowledge Representation (KR) and ontologies....
This paper concerns the design of a workflow which permits to feed and query a data warehouse opened on the Web, driven by a domain ontology. This data warehouse has been built to...