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Recently, the description logic LE-ALC was introduced for reasoning in the semantic environment of the enriched formal contexts, and a tableaux algorithm was developed for checking the consistency of ABoxes in this logic. In this paper, we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Krishna Manoorkar , Ruoding Wang

Explainability has been a goal for Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems since their conception, with the need for explainability growing as more complex AI models are increasingly used in critical, high-stakes settings such as healthcare.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Shruthi Chari , Oshani Seneviratne , Daniel M. Gruen , Morgan A. Foreman , Amar K. Das , Deborah L. McGuinness

Inconsistency handling is an important issue in knowledge management. Especially in ontology engineering, logical inconsistencies may occur during ontology construction. A natural way to reason with an inconsistent ontology is to utilize…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Keyu Wang , Site Li , Jiaye Li , Guilin Qi , Qiu Ji

Abstract reasoning, the ability to reason from the abstract essence of a problem, serves as a key to generalization in human reasoning. However, eliciting language models to perform reasoning with abstraction remains unexplored. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Ruixin Hong , Hongming Zhang , Xiaoman Pan , Dong Yu , Changshui Zhang

Artificial neural networks are often very complex and too deep for a human to understand. As a result, they are usually referred to as black boxes. For a lot of real-world problems, the underlying pattern itself is very complicated, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Yang Li

In this paper, an approach for concept extraction from documents using pre-trained large language models (LLMs) is presented. Compared with conventional methods that extract keyphrases summarizing the important information discussed in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Ebrahim Norouzi , Sven Hertling , Harald Sack

Combining knowledge and beliefs of autonomous peers in distributed settings, is a ma- jor challenge. In this paper we consider peers that combine ontologies and reason jointly with their coupled knowledge. Ontologies are within the SHIQ…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-10-10 George A. Vouros , Georgios Santipantakis

As ontologies proliferate and automatic reasoners become more powerful, the problem of protecting sensitive information becomes more serious. In particular, as facts can be inferred from other facts, it becomes increasingly likely that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-04-02 Genady Grabarnik , Aaron Kershenbaum

In this paper, we introduce a novel interpreting framework that learns an interpretable model based on an ontology-based sampling technique to explain agnostic prediction models. Different from existing approaches, our algorithm considers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Phung Lai , NhatHai Phan , Han Hu , Anuja Badeti , David Newman , Dejing Dou

The project, under industrial funding, presented in this publication aims at the semantic analysis of a normative document describing requirements applicable to electrical appliances. The objective of the project is to build a semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Helene de Ribaupierre , Anne-Francoise Cutting-Decelle , Nathalie Baumier , Serge Blumental

Fusions are a simple way of combining logics. For normal modal logics, fusions have been investigated in detail. In particular, it is known that, under certain conditions, decidability transfers from the component logics to their fusion.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-10 F. Baader , C. Lutz , H. Sturm , F. Wolter

Ontology-based query answering (OBQA) asks whether a Boolean conjunctive query is satisfied by all models of a logical theory consisting of a relational database paired with an ontology. The introduction of existential rules (i.e., Datalog…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Giovanni Amendola , Nicola Leone , Marco Manna

Reasoning about exceptions in ontologies is nowadays one of the challenges the description logics community is facing. The paper describes a preferential approach for dealing with exceptions in Description Logics, based on the rational…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Laura Giordano , Valentina Gliozzi

Given a knowledge base and an observation as a set of facts, ABox abduction aims at computing a hypothesis that, when added to the knowledge base, is sufficient to entail the observation. In signature-based ABox abduction, the hypothesis is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Patrick Koopmann

Reasoning over OWL 2 is a very expensive task in general, and therefore the W3C identified tractable profiles exhibiting good computational properties. Ontological reasoning for many fragments of OWL 2 can be reduced to the evaluation of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Mario Alviano , Marco Manna

Although there is a somewhat standard formalization of computability on countable sets given by Turing machines, the same cannot be said about uncountable sets. Among the approaches to define computability in these sets, order-theoretic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Pedro Hack , Daniel A. Braun , Sebastian Gottwald

Ontologies enable knowledge sharing and interdisciplinary collaboration by providing standardized, structured vocabularies for diverse communities. While logical axioms are a cornerstone of ontology design, natural language elements such as…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Paul Fabry , Adrien Barton , Jean-François Éthier

When reasoning in description, modal or temporal logics it is often useful to consider axioms representing universal truths in the domain of discourse. Reasoning with respect to an arbitrary set of axioms is hard, even for relatively…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ian Horrocks , Stephan Tobies

Over the past two decades several fragments of first-order logic have been identified and shown to have good computational and algorithmic properties, to a great extent as a result of appropriately describing the image of the standard…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Lidia Tendera

Service robots need common-sense knowledge to help humans in everyday situations as it enables them to understand the context of their actions. However, approaches that use ontologies face a challenge because common-sense knowledge is often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Felix Ocker , Jörg Deigmöller , Julian Eggert