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A Journey into Ontology Approximation: From Non-Horn to Horn

Anneke Haga, Carsten Lutz, Johannes Marti, Frank Wolter

Abstract

We study complete approximations of an ontology formulated in a non-Horn description logic (DL) such as ALC in a Horn DL such as EL. We provide concrete approximation schemes that are necessarily infinite and observe that in the ELU-to-EL case finite approximations tend to exist in practice and are guaranteed to exist when the source ontology is acyclic. In contrast, neither of this is the case for ELU_bot-to-EL_bot and for ALC-to-EL_bot approximations. We also define a notion of approximation tailored towards ontology-mediated querying, connect it to subsumption-based approximations, and identify a case where finite approximations are guaranteed to exist.

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Description Logics and Ontologies
BibTeX
@inproceedings{ijcai2020p253,
  title     = {A Journey into Ontology Approximation: From Non-Horn to Horn},
  author    = {Haga, Anneke and Lutz, Carsten and Marti, Johannes and Wolter, Frank},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on
               Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-20}},
  publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization},
  editor    = {Christian Bessiere},
  pages     = {1827--1833},
  year      = {2020},
  month     = {7},
  note      = {Main track},
  doi       = {10.24963/ijcai.2020/253},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2020/253},
}