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Closed-World Semantics for Conjunctive Queries with Negation over ELH⊥ Ontologies: Extended Version

Ontology-mediated query answering is a popular paradigm for enriching answers to user queries with background knowledge. For querying the absence of information, however, there exist only few ontology-based approaches. Moreover, these proposals conflate the closed-domain and closed-world assumption, and therefore are not suited to deal with the anonymous objects that are common in ontological reasoning. We propose a new closed-world semantics for answering conjunctive queries with negation over ontologies formulated in the description logic ELH⊥, which is based on the minimal canonical model. We propose a rewriting strategy for dealing with negated query atoms, which shows that query answering is possible in polynomial time in data complexity.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:88781
Date28 December 2023
CreatorsBorgwardt, Stefan, Forkel, Walter
ContributorsTechnische Universität Dresden
Source SetsHochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion, doc-type:report, info:eu-repo/semantics/report, doc-type:Text
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Relationurn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-785040, qucosa:78504, 10.1007/978-3-030-19570-0_24

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