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We investigate the problem of finite entailment of ontology-mediated queries. We consider the expressive query language, unions of conjunctive regular path queries (UCRPQs), extending the well-known class of union of conjunctive queries,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Vıctor Gutiérrez-Basulto , Albert Gutowski , Yazmın Ibáñez-Garcıa , Filip Murlak

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

Answering conjunctive queries (CQs) over a set of facts extended with existential rules is a prominent problem in knowledge representation and databases. This problem can be solved using the chase algorithm, which extends the given set of…

We consider the problem of exact probabilistic inference for Union of Conjunctive Queries (UCQs) on tuple-independent databases. For this problem, two approaches currently coexist. In the extensional method, query evaluation is performed by…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Mikaël Monet

Existential rules are a positive fragment of first-order logic that generalizes function-free Horn rules by allowing existentially quantified variables in rule heads. This family of languages has recently attracted significant interest in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Stathis Delivorias , Michel Leclère , Marie-Laure Mugnier , Federico Ulliana

We study reasoning with existential rules to perform query answering over streams of data. On static databases, this problem has been widely studied, but its extension to rapidly changing data has not yet been considered. To bridge this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Jacopo Urbani , Markus Krötzsch , Thomas Eiter

Logically constrained term rewriting is a rewriting framework that supports built-in data structures such as integers and bit vectors. Recently, constrained terms play a key role in various analyses and applications of logically constrained…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Kanta Takahata , Jonas Schöpf , Naoki Nishida , Takahito Aoto

Ontology-based query answering with existential rules is well understood and implemented for positive queries, in particular conjunctive queries. The situation changes drastically for queries with negation, where there is no agreed-upon…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Stefan Ellmauthaler , Markus Krötzsch , Stephan Mennicke

Rewriting Induction (RI) is a principle to prove that an equation over terms is an inductive theorem of a rewrite system, i.e., that any ground instance of the equation is a theorem of the rewrite system. RI has been adapted to several…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Naoki Nishida , Kazushi Nishie , Misaki Kojima

We study the problem of enumerating answers of Conjunctive Queries ranked according to a given ranking function. Our main contribution is a novel algorithm with small preprocessing time, logarithmic delay, and non-trivial space usage during…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Shaleen Deep , Paraschos Koutris

Reversible computation requires that intermediate data be explicitly undone rather than discarded. In quantum programming, this principle appears as uncomputation, usually treated as a technical cleanup mechanism. We instead present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Simone Faro , Francesco Pio Marino , Gabriele Messina

Existential rules are an expressive knowledge representation language mainly developed to query data. In the literature, they are often supposed to be in some normal form that simplifies technical developments. For instance, a common…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-08 David Carral , Lucas Larroque , Marie-Laure Mugnier , Michaël Thomazo

Since 2005, significant progress has been made in the problem of Consistent Query Answering (CQA) with respect to primary keys. In this problem, the input is a database instance that may violate one or more primary key constraints. A repair…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Miika Hannula , Jef Wijsen

Significant efforts have been expended in the research and development of a database management system (DBMS) that has a wide range of applications for managing an enormous collection of multisource, heterogeneous, complex, or growing data.…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Chunkai Zhang , Zilin Du , Quanjian Dai , Wensheng Gan , Jian Weng , Philip S. Yu

A prominent approach to implementing ontology-mediated queries (OMQs) is to rewrite into a first-order query, which is then executed using a conventional SQL database system. We consider the case where the ontology is formulated in the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Peter Hansen , Carsten Lutz

Compared to standard retrieval tasks, passage retrieval for conversational question answering (CQA) poses new challenges in understanding the current user question, as each question needs to be interpreted within the dialogue context.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Zeqiu Wu , Yi Luan , Hannah Rashkin , David Reitter , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Mari Ostendorf , Gaurav Singh Tomar

Conversational passage retrieval is challenging as it often requires the resolution of references to previous utterances and needs to deal with the complexities of natural language, such as coreference and ellipsis. To address these…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Ivica Kostric , Krisztian Balog

A central computational task in database theory, finite model theory, and computer science at large is the evaluation of a first-order sentence on a finite structure. In the context of this task, the \emph{width} of a sentence, defined as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Hubie Chen , Stefan Mengel

Inquisitive logic is a research program that extends the scope of logic to cover not only statements, but also questions. In the context of this program, a logic that plays a prominent role is inquisitive first-order logic, InqBQ, which…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Ivano Ciardelli , Juha Kontinen

Incomplete utterance rewriting has recently raised wide attention. However, previous works do not consider the semantic structural information between incomplete utterance and rewritten utterance or model the semantic structure implicitly…

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