Approximating Terminological Queries

  • Authors:
  • Heiner Stuckenschmidt;Frank van Harmelen

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • FQAS '02 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Current proposals for languages to encode terminological knowledge in intelligent systems support logical reasoning for answering user queries about objects and classes. An application ofthese languages on the World Wide Web, however, is hampered by the limitations of logical reasoning in terms ofefficiency and flexibility. In this paper we describe, how techniques from approximate reasoning can be used to overcome these problems. We discuss terminological knowledge and approximate reasoning in general and show the benefits of approximate reasoning using the example of building and maintaining semantic catalogues that can be used to query resource locations based on object classes.