01419nas a2200205 4500008004100000245008100041210006900122300001400191520078200205653002300987653000801010653002401018100001801042700002001060700002301080700002701103700002001130700001801150856004501168 2014 eng d00aIs Your Ontology as Hard as You Think? Rewriting Ontologies into Simpler DLs0 aYour Ontology as Hard as You Think Rewriting Ontologies into Sim a128–1403 a
We investigate cases where an ontology expressed in a seemingly hard DL can be polynomially reduced to one in a simpler logic, while preserving reasoning outcomes for classification and fact entailment. Our transformations target the elimination of inverse roles, universal and existential restrictions, and in the best case allow us to rewrite the given ontology into one of the OWL 2 profiles. Even if an ontology cannot be fully rewritten into a profile, in many cases our transformations allow us to exploit further optimisation techniques. Moreover, the elimination of some out-of-profile axioms can improve the performance of modular reasoners, such as MORe. We have tested our techniques on both classification and data reasoning tasks with encouraging results.
10adescription logics10aOWL10aTractable Reasoning1 aCarral, David1 aFeier, Cristina1 aRomero, Ana, Armas1 aGrau, Bernardo, Cuenca1 aHitzler, Pascal1 aHorrocks, Ian uhttp://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1193/paper_75.pdf