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Conjunctive queries play an important role as an expressive query language for Description Logics (DLs). Although modern DLs usually provide for transitive roles, conjunctive query answering over DL knowledge bases is only poorly understood…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-11-02 Birte Glimm , Ian Horrocks , Carsten Lutz , Ulrike Sattler

We clarify the complexity of answering unions of conjunctive queries over knowledge bases formulated in the description logic $\mathcal S$, the extension of $\mathcal{ALC}$ with transitive roles. Contrary to what existing partial results…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yazmín Ibáñez-García , Jean Christoph Jung , Vincent Michielini , Filip Murlak

Multi-hop logical reasoning is an established problem in the field of representation learning on knowledge graphs (KGs). It subsumes both one-hop link prediction as well as other more complex types of logical queries. Existing algorithms…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Dimitrios Alivanistos , Max Berrendorf , Michael Cochez , Mikhail Galkin

In logic-based knowledge representation, query answering has essentially replaced mere satisfiability checking as the inferencing problem of primary interest. For knowledge bases in the basic description logic ALC, the computational…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Bartosz Bednarczyk , Sebastian Rudolph

Conjunctive query (CQ) evaluation is NP-complete, but becomes tractable for fragments of bounded hypertreewidth. Approximating a hard CQ by a query from such a fragment can thus allow for an efficient approximate evaluation. While…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Pablo Barceló , Miguel Romero , Thomas Zeume

Question Answering (QA) over Knowledge Base (KB) aims to automatically answer natural language questions via well-structured relation information between entities stored in knowledge bases. In order to make KBQA more applicable in actual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Bin Fu , Yunqi Qiu , Chengguang Tang , Yang Li , Haiyang Yu , Jian Sun

We present an output-sensitive algorithm for evaluating an acyclic Conjunctive Regular Path Query (CRPQ). Its complexity is written in terms of the input size, the output size, and a well-known parameter of the query that is called the…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Mahmoud Abo Khamis , Alexandru-Mihai Hurjui , Ahmet Kara , Dan Olteanu , Dan Suciu

Knowledge graphs (KGs) are large datasets with specific structures representing large knowledge bases (KB) where each node represents a key entity and relations amongst them are typed edges. Natural language queries formed to extract…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Abir Chakraborty

We study the decidability and complexity of equational theories of the existential calculus of relations with transitive closure (ECoR*) and its fragments, where ECoR* is the positive calculus of relations with transitive closure extended…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yoshiki Nakamura

The deductive closure of an ideal knowledge base (KB) contains exactly the logical queries that the KB can answer. However, in practice KBs are both incomplete and over-specified, failing to answer some queries that have real-world answers.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Haitian Sun , Andrew O. Arnold , Tania Bedrax-Weiss , Fernando Pereira , William W. Cohen

An algorithm for answering conjunctive queries over SHIQ knowledge bases that is coNP in data complexity is given. The algorithm is based on the tableau algorithm for reasoning with individuals in SHIQ. The blocking conditions of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 M. Magdalena Ortiz de la Fuente , Diego Calvanese , Thomas Eiter , Enrico Franconi

Complex query answering (CQA) on knowledge graphs (KGs) is gaining momentum as a challenging reasoning task. In this paper, we show that the current benchmarks for CQA might not be as complex as we think, as the way they are built distorts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Cosimo Gregucci , Bo Xiong , Daniel Hernandez , Lorenzo Loconte , Pasquale Minervini , Steffen Staab , Antonio Vergari

We study query answering in the description logic $\mathcal{SQ}$ supporting qualified number restrictions on both transitive and non-transitive roles. Our main contributions are a tree-like model property for $\mathcal{SQ}$ knowledge bases…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Víctor Gutiérrez-Basulto , Yazmín Ibáñez-García , Jean Christoph Jung

Reverse engineering problems for conjunctive queries (CQs), such as query by example (QBE) or definability, take a set of user examples and convert them into an explanatory CQ. Despite their importance, the complexity of these problems is…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-07-08 Pablo Barcelo , Miguel Romero

Complex Query Answering (CQA) is a crucial reasoning task over Knowledge Graphs (KGs), which aims to answer first-order logical queries from incomplete KGs. While existing neural-symbolic methods achieve strong performance, they face…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Weizhi Fei , Zihao Wang , hang Yin , Shukai Zhao , Wei Zhang , Yangqiu Song

Complex question answering over knowledge base (Complex KBQA) is challenging because it requires various compositional reasoning capabilities, such as multi-hop inference, attribute comparison, set operation. Existing benchmarks have some…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Shulin Cao , Jiaxin Shi , Liangming Pan , Lunyiu Nie , Yutong Xiang , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li , Bin He , Hanwang Zhang

Complex query answering (CQA) is an essential task for multi-hop and logical reasoning on knowledge graphs (KGs). Currently, most approaches are limited to queries among binary relational facts and pay less attention to n-ary facts (n>=2)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Haoran Luo , Haihong E , Yuhao Yang , Gengxian Zhou , Yikai Guo , Tianyu Yao , Zichen Tang , Xueyuan Lin , Kaiyang Wan

Knowledge base question answering (KBQA) aims to answer a question over a knowledge base (KB). Early studies mainly focused on answering simple questions over KBs and achieved great success. However, their performance on complex questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Yunshi Lan , Gaole He , Jinhao Jiang , Jing Jiang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

In spite of several claims stating that some models are more interpretable than others -- e.g., "linear models are more interpretable than deep neural networks" -- we still lack a principled notion of interpretability to formally compare…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Pablo Barceló , Mikaël Monet , Jorge Pérez , Bernardo Subercaseaux

We study the following problem: with the power of postselection (classically or quantumly), what is your ability to answer adaptive queries to certain languages? More specifically, for what kind of computational classes $\mathcal{C}$, we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Lijie Chen
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