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The ontology engineering process is complex, time-consuming, and error-prone, even for experienced ontology engineers. In this work, we investigate the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) to provide effective OWL ontology drafts…

In Ontology Based Data Access (OBDA) users pose SPARQL queries over an ontology that lies on top of relational datasources. These queries are translated on-the-fly into SQL queries by OBDA systems. Standard SPARQL-to-SQL translation…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Dag Hovland , Davide Lanti , Martin Rezk , Guohui Xiao

This paper investigates the impact of query topology on the difficulty of answering conjunctive queries in the presence of OWL 2 QL ontologies. Our first contribution is to clarify the worst-case size of positive existential (PE),…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Meghyn Bienvenu , Stanislav Kikot , Vladimir Podolskii

Open-domain complex Question Answering (QA) is a difficult task with challenges in evidence retrieval and reasoning. The complexity of such questions could stem from questions being compositional, hybrid evidence, or ambiguity in questions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Venktesh V. Deepali Prabhu , Avishek Anand

Multiple logic-based reconstructions of conceptual data modelling languages such as EER, UML Class Diagrams, and ORM exist. They mainly cover various fragments of the languages and none are formalised such that the logic applies…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Pablo Rubén Fillottrani , C. Maria Keet

We address the problem of answering Web ontology queries efficiently. An ontology is formalized as a Deductive Ontology Base (DOB), a deductive database that comprises the ontology's inference axioms and facts. A cost-based query…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-11-15 Edna Ruckhaus , Eduardo Ruiz , Maria-Esther Vidal

This article analyzes the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) as support for the conceptual modeling of relational databases through the automatic generation of Entity-Relationship (ER) diagrams from natural language requirements. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Arthur F. Siqueira , Carlos D. S. Nogueira , Eduarda Farias , Claudio E. C. Campelo , Júlia Menezes

Ontology-based data access (OBDA) is a novel paradigm facilitating access to relational data, realized by linking data sources to an ontology by means of declarative mappings. DL-Lite_R, which is the logic underpinning the W3C ontology…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-12-02 Elena Botoeva , Diego Calvanese , Valerio Santarelli , Domenico Fabio Savo , Alessandro Solimando , Guohui Xiao

Metamodeling is a general approach to expressing knowledge about classes and properties in an ontology. It is a desirable modeling feature in multiple applications that simplifies the extension and reuse of ontologies. Nevertheless,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Haya Majid Qureshi , Wolfgang Faber

In this paper, we introduce and apply Operations Research Question Answering (ORQA), a new benchmark designed to assess the generalization capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in the specialized technical domain of Operations…

Query evaluation on probabilistic databases is generally intractable (#P-hard). Existing dichotomy results have identified which queries are tractable (or safe), and connected them to tractable lineages. In our previous work, using…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Antoine Amarilli , Pierre Bourhis , Pierre Senellart

We study the complexity of answer counting for ontology-mediated queries and for querying under constraints, considering conjunctive queries and unions thereof (UCQs) as the query language and guarded TGDs as the ontology and constraint…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Cristina Feier , Carsten Lutz , Marcin Przybyłko

In this paper we use results from Computable Set Theory as a means to represent and reason about description logics and rule languages for the semantic web. Specifically, we introduce the description logic $\mathcal{DL}\langle…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-11 Domenico Cantone , Cristiano Longo , Marianna Nicolosi-Asmundo , Daniele Francesco Santamaria

Ontology matching (OM) plays a key role in enabling data interoperability and knowledge sharing, but it remains challenging due to the need for large training datasets and limited vocabulary processing in machine learning approaches.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Maria Taboada , Diego Martinez , Mohammed Arideh , Rosa Mosquera

OWL (Web Ontology Language) ontologies, which are able to represent both relational and type facts as standard knowledge graphs and complex domain knowledge in Description Logic (DL) axioms, are widely adopted in domains such as healthcare…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Hui Yang , Jiaoyan Chen , Uli Sattler

The controllability of Large Language Models (LLMs) when used as conversational agents is a key challenge, particularly to ensure predictable and user-personalized responses. This work proposes an ontology-based approach to formally define…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Barbara Gendron , Gaël Guibon , Mathieu D'aquin

Circumscription is one of the main approaches for defining non-monotonic description logics (DLs). While the decidability and complexity of traditional reasoning tasks such as satisfiability of circumscribed DL knowledge bases (KBs) is well…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Carsten Lutz , Quentin Manière , Robin Nolte

We study the problem of fitting a description logic (DL) ontology to a given set of positive and negative examples that take the form of an ABox and a Boolean query. While previous work has investigated this problem for the expressive DLs…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Marvin Grosser , Carsten Lutz

Despite the large number of patients in Electronic Health Records (EHRs), the subset of usable data for modeling outcomes of specific phenotypes are often imbalanced and of modest size. This can be attributed to the uneven coverage of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Mohamed Ghalwash , Zijun Yao , Prithwish Chakraborty , James Codella , Daby Sow

Ontologies are widely used for representing domain knowledge and meta data, playing an increasingly important role in Information Systems, the Semantic Web, Bioinformatics and many other domains. However, logical reasoning that ontologies…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jiaoyan Chen , Olga Mashkova , Fernando Zhapa-Camacho , Robert Hoehndorf , Yuan He , Ian Horrocks