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Description Logic: A Knowledge Representation Language

Published on December 2014 by Vandana Mohan Patil
National Conference on Emerging Trends in Information Technology
Foundation of Computer Science USA
NCETIT - Number 2
December 2014
Authors: Vandana Mohan Patil
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Vandana Mohan Patil . Description Logic: A Knowledge Representation Language. National Conference on Emerging Trends in Information Technology. NCETIT, 2 (December 2014), 1-5.

@article{
author = { Vandana Mohan Patil },
title = { Description Logic: A Knowledge Representation Language },
journal = { National Conference on Emerging Trends in Information Technology },
issue_date = { December 2014 },
volume = { NCETIT },
number = { 2 },
month = { December },
year = { 2014 },
issn = 0975-8887,
pages = { 1-5 },
numpages = 5,
url = { /proceedings/ncetit/number2/19070-3027/ },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
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Abstract

Description logic (DL) is a language for knowledge representation which is used to represent the terminological knowledge of an application domain in a structured and well-understood way. Two important features of DL are expressivity and decidability. Description Logics use two types of data structures for representing knowledge viz T-Box and A-Box. T-Box stores the basic terminologies of the application domain whereas A-Box consists of the assertions resulted from inference. Description Logics use two types of inference patterns: classification of individuals and classification of concepts. The process of inference is called as Reasoning. There are several types of reasoning. The reasoning procedures used in DL are Decision Procedures.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Logics Knowledge Representation Language Reasoning Decision Procedures.