RDF entailment as a graph homomorphism

  • Authors:
  • Jean-François Baget

  • Affiliations:
  • INRIA Rhône-Alpes, Saint Ismier, France

  • Venue:
  • ISWC'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on The Semantic Web
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Semantic consequence (entailment) in RDF is ususally computed using Pat Hayes Interpolation Lemma. In this paper, we reformulate this mechanism as a graph homomorphism known as projection in the conceptual graphs community. Though most of the paper is devoted to a detailed proof of this result, we discuss the immediate benefits of this reformulation: it is now easy to translate results from different communities (e.g. conceptual graphs, constraint programming, ...) to obtain new polynomial cases for the NP-complete RDF entailment problem, as well as numerous algorithmic optimizations.