Temporal Minimal-World Query Answering over Sparse ABoxes
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Abstract
Ontology-mediated query answering is a popular paradigm for enriching answers to user queries with background knowledge. For querying the absence of information, however, there exist only few ontology-based approaches. Moreover, these proposals conflate the closed-domain and closed-world assumption and, therefore, are not suited to deal with the anonymous objects that are common in ontological reasoning. Many real-world applications, like processing electronic health records, also contain a temporal dimension and require efficient reasoning algorithms. Moreover, since medical data are not recorded on a regular basis, reasoners must deal with sparse data with potentially large temporal gaps. Our contribution consists of two main parts: In the first part, we introduce a new closed-world semantics for answering conjunctive queries (CQs) with negation over ontologies formulated in the description logic, which is based on the minimal canonical model. We propose a rewriting strategy for dealing with negated query atoms, which shows that query answering is possible in polynomial time in data complexity. In the second part, we extend this minimal-world semantics for answering metric temporal CQs with negation over the lightweight temporal logic and obtain similar rewritability and complexity results.
Details
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 193-228 |
Number of pages | 36 |
Journal | Theory and practice of logic programming |
Volume | 22 |
Issue number | 2 |
Publication status | Published - 11 Aug 2021 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
Scopus | 85113184380 |
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unpaywall | 10.1017/s1471068421000119 |
Mendeley | 5b81efe9-64d0-38ea-8cc5-eeaab563be3c |
dblp | journals/tplp/BorgwardtFK22 |
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- knowledge representation and nonmonotonic reasoning