A recurring problem in conceptual modelling and ontology development is the representation of part-whole relations, with a requirement to be able to distinguish between essential a...
We propose a method to compare semantically two natural language texts. The process is realized in two steps, the first translates the texts into description logics terminologies...
We consider two recently proposed definitions of the expressive power of description logics, one due to Baader, the other due to Kurtonina and de Rijke. The proposals are non-equi...
Abstract. We show that the description logic SOQ with number restrictions on transitive roles is decidable by a terminating tableau calculus. The language decided by the calculus i...
For multimedia interpretation, and in particular for the combined interpretation of information coming from different modalities, a semantically well-founded formalization is requ...