Abstract
The last couple of years it is widely acknowledged that uncertainty and fuzzy extensions to ontology languages, like description logics (DLs) and OWL, could play a significant role in the improvement of many Semantic Web (SW) applications like matching, merging and ranking. Unfortunately, existing fuzzy reasoners focus on very expressive fuzzy ontology languages, like OWL, and are thus not able to handle the scale of data that the Web provides. For those reasons much research effort has been focused on providing fuzzy extensions and algorithms for tractable ontology languages. In this chapter, the authors present some recent results about reasoning and fuzzy query answering over tractable/polynomial fuzzy ontology languages namely Fuzzy DL-Lite and Fuzzy EL+. Fuzzy DL-Lite provides scalable algorithms for very expressive (extended) conjunctive queries, while Fuzzy EL+ provides polynomial algorithms for knowledge classification. For the Fuzzy DL-Lite case the authors will also report on an implementation in the ONTOSEARCH2 system and preliminary, but encouraging, benchmarking results.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Scalable Fuzzy Algorithms for Data Management and Analysis |
| Subtitle of host publication | Methods and Design |
| Editors | Anne Laurent, Marie-Jeanne Lesot |
| Publisher | IGI Global |
| Pages | 130-158 |
| Number of pages | 29 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781605668598 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781605668581, 1605668583, 9781616924478 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2009 |