Approximating Terminological Queries

Heiner Stuckenschmidt
Frank van Harmelen

Current proposals for languages to encode terminological knowledge in intelligent systems support logical reasoning for answering user queries about objects and classes. An application of these languages on the World Wide Web, however, is hampered by the limitations of logical reasoning in terms of e ciency and exibility. In this paper we describe, how techniques from approximate reasoning can be used to overcome these problems. We discuss terminological knowledge and ap- proximate reasoning in general and show the benets of approximate reasoning using the example of building and maintaining semantic cat- alogues that can be used to query resource locations based on object classes.

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@InProceedings{FQAS02,
  author =       "Heiner Stuckenschmidt and Frank van Harmelen",
  title =        "Approximating Terminological Queries",
  editor =       "H.L. Larsen et al.",
  number =       "2522",
  series =       "Advances in Soft Computing",
  pages =        "329-343",
  booktitle =    "Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 4th
                  International Conference on Flexible Query Answering
                  Systems ({FQAS})'02)",
  publisher =    "Springer-Verlag",
  year =         2002,
  keywords = {Approximate Reasoning},
  urlPaper = "http://www.cs.vu.nl/~frankh/postscript/FQAS02.pdf"
}
Copyright © Springer Verlag 2002

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