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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

A typical IR system that delivers and stores information is affected by problem of matching between user query and available content on web. Use of Ontology represents the extracted terms in form of network graph consisting of nodes, edges,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Gagandeep Singh Narula , Vishal Jain

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at language understanding but remain limited in knowledge-intensive domains due to hallucinations, outdated information, and limited explainability. Text-based retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) helps…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Larissa Pusch , Alexandre Courtiol , Tim Conrad

We study a logic-based approach to versioning of ontologies. Under this view, ontologies provide answers to queries about some vocabulary of interest. The difference between two versions of an ontology is given by the set of queries that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Boris Konev , Michel Ludwig , Dirk Walther , Frank Wolter

An ontology is a formal representation of domain knowledge, which can be interpreted by machines. In recent years, ontologies have become a major tool for domain knowledge representation and a core component of many knowledge management…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Anat Goldstein , Lior Fink , Gilad Ravid

Ontology embeddings map classes, roles, and individuals in ontologies into $\mathbb{R}^n$, and within $\mathbb{R}^n$ similarity between entities can be computed or new axioms inferred. For ontologies in the Description Logic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Olga Mashkova , Fernando Zhapa-Camacho , Robert Hoehndorf

Aspect-oriented explanations in search results are typically concise text snippets placed alongside retrieved documents to serve as explanations that assist users in efficiently locating relevant information. While Large Language Models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Arif Laksito , Mark Stevenson

We define an inference system to capture explanations based on causal statements, using an ontology in the form of an IS-A hierarchy. We first introduce a simple logical language which makes it possible to express that a fact causes another…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-05-02 Philippe Besnard , Marie-Odile Cordier , Yves Moinard

Open-domain question answering (Open-QA) is a common task for evaluating large language models (LLMs). However, current Open-QA evaluations are criticized for the ambiguity in questions and the lack of semantic understanding in evaluators.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Peiran Yao , Denilson Barbosa

Given the intractably large size of the space of proofs, any model that is capable of general deductive reasoning must generalize to proofs of greater complexity. Recent studies have shown that large language models (LLMs) possess some…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Abulhair Saparov , Richard Yuanzhe Pang , Vishakh Padmakumar , Nitish Joshi , Seyed Mehran Kazemi , Najoung Kim , He He

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

Ontologies often lack explicit disjointness declarations between classes, despite their usefulness for sophisticated reasoning and consistency checking in Knowledge Graphs. In this study, we explore the potential of Large Language Models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Elias Crum , Antonio De Santis , Manon Ovide , Jiaxin Pan , Alessia Pisu , Nicolas Lazzari , Sebastian Rudolph

Explanations for description logic (DL) entailments provide important support for the maintenance of large ontologies. The "justifications" usually employed for this purpose in ontology editors pinpoint the parts of the ontology responsible…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Christian Alrabbaa , Franz Baader , Stefan Borgwardt , Raimund Dachselt , Patrick Koopmann , Julián Méndez

The Semantic Web effort has steadily been gaining traction in the recent years. In particular,Web search companies are recently realizing that their products need to evolve towards having richer semantic search capabilities. Description…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Thomas Lukasiewicz , Maria Vanina Martinez , Giorgio Orsi , Gerardo I. Simari

This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in metaphor interpretation across multiple datasets, tasks, and prompt configurations. Although metaphor processing has gained significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Elisa Sanchez-Bayona , Rodrigo Agerri

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 our work, we systematize and analyze implicit ontological commitments in the responses generated by large language models (LLMs), focusing on ChatGPT 3.5 as a case study. We investigate how LLMs, despite having no explicit ontology,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Nele Köhler , Fabian Neuhaus

Neural link predictors are immensely useful for identifying missing edges in large scale Knowledge Graphs. However, it is still not clear how to use these models for answering more complex queries that arise in a number of domains, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Erik Arakelyan , Daniel Daza , Pasquale Minervini , Michael Cochez

With the large volume of unstructured data that increases constantly on the web, the motivation of representing the knowledge in this data in the machine-understandable form is increased. Ontology is one of the major cornerstones of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Fatima N. AL-Aswadi , Huah Yong Chan , Keng Hoon Gan

We tackle the task of enriching ontologies by automatically translating natural language sentences into Description Logic. Since Large Language Models (LLMs) are the best tools for translations, we fine-tuned a GPT-3 model to convert…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Patricia Mateiu , Adrian Groza