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We study FO-rewritability of conjunctive queries in the presence of ontologies formulated in a description logic between EL and Horn-SHIF, along with related query containment problems. Apart from providing characterizations, we establish…

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A quantum algorithm for general combinatorial search that uses the underlying structure of the search space to increase the probability of finding a solution is presented. This algorithm shows how coherent quantum systems can be matched to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Tad Hogg

Conversational question answering (convQA) over knowledge graphs (KGs) involves answering multi-turn natural language questions about information contained in a KG. State-of-the-art methods of ConvQA often struggle with inexplicit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Lihui Liu , Blaine Hill , Boxin Du , Fei Wang , Hanghang Tong

Datalog+/- is a Datalog-based language family enhanced with existential quantification in rule heads, equalities and negative constraints. Query answering over databases with respect to a Datalog+/- theory is generally undecidable, however…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-05-21 Michael Morak

This report concerns the information content of a graph, optionally conditional on one or more background, "common knowledge" graphs. It describes an algorithm to estimate this information content, and includes some examples based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Lloyd Allison

We propose a novel method for exploiting the semantic structure of text to answer multiple-choice questions. The approach is especially suitable for domains that require reasoning over a diverse set of linguistic constructs but have limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Daniel Khashabi , Tushar Khot , Ashish Sabharwal , Dan Roth

Our concern is the problem of efficiently determining the data complexity of answering queries mediated by description logic ontologies and constructing their optimal rewritings to standard database queries. Originated in ontology-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Olga Gerasimova , Stanislav Kikot , Agi Kurucz , Vladimir Podolskii , Michael Zakharyaschev

Explainable question answering (XQA) aims to answer a given question and provide an explanation why the answer is selected. Existing XQA methods focus on reasoning on a single knowledge source, e.g., structured knowledge bases, unstructured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Jiajie Zhang , Shulin Cao , Tingjia Zhang , Xin Lv , Jiaxin Shi , Qi Tian , Juanzi Li , Lei Hou

Thanks to information extraction and semantic Web efforts, search on unstructured text is increasingly refined using semantic annotations and structured knowledge bases. However, most users cannot become familiar with the schema of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-12-27 Uma Sawant , Soumen Chakrabarti

Over time, software systems have reached a level of complexity that makes it difficult for their developers and users to explain particular decisions made by them. In this paper, we focus on the explainability of component-based systems for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Dennis Schiese , Aleksandr Perevalov , Andreas Both

We consider ontology-mediated queries (OMQs) based on expressive description logics of the ALC family and (unions) of conjunctive queries, studying the rewritability into OMQs based on instance queries (IQs). Our results include exact…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Cristina Feier , Carsten Lutz , Frank Wolter

Multi-paragraph reasoning is indispensable for open-domain question answering (OpenQA), which receives less attention in the current OpenQA systems. In this work, we propose a knowledge-enhanced graph neural network (KGNN), which performs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Deming Ye , Yankai Lin , Zhenghao Liu , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

We investigate the computational complexity of mining guarded clauses from clausal datasets through the framework of inductive logic programming (ILP). We show that learning guarded clauses is NP-complete and thus one step below the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Andrei Draghici , Georg Gottlob , Matthias Lanzinger

Ontology-based query answering (OBQA) augments classical query answering in databases by domain knowledge encoded in an ontology. Systems for OBQA use the ontological knowledge to infer new information that is not explicitly given in the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Stefan Borgwardt , Veronika Thost

We present a novel approach to answering sequential questions based on structured objects such as knowledge bases or tables without using a logical form as an intermediate representation. We encode tables as graphs using a graph neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Thomas Müller , Francesco Piccinno , Massimo Nicosia , Peter Shaw , Yasemin Altun

We present trichotomy results characterizing the complexity of reasoning with disjunctive logic programs. To this end, we introduce a certain definition schema for classes of programs based on a set of allowed arities of rules. We show that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-10-08 Miroslaw Truszczynski

In this paper we explore fundamental concepts in computational complexity theory and the boundaries of algorithmic decidability. We examine the relationship between complexity classes \textbf{P} and \textbf{NP}, where $L \in \textbf{P}$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Duaa Abdullah , Jasem Hamoud

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 consider here the problem of obtaining reliable, consistent information from inconsistent databases -- databases that do not have to satisfy given integrity constraints. We use the notion of consistent query answer -- a query answer…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jan Chomicki , Jerzy Marcinkowski

We consider the task of enumerating and counting answers to $k$-ary conjunctive queries against relational databases that may be updated by inserting or deleting tuples. We exhibit a new notion of q-hierarchical conjunctive queries and show…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Christoph Berkholz , Jens Keppeler , Nicole Schweikardt
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