Measuring similarity of individuals in description logics over the refinement space of conjunctive queries

Similarity assessment is a key operation in several areas of artificial intelligence. This paper focuses on measuring similarity in the context of Description Logics (DL), and specifically on similarity between individuals. The main contribution of this paper is a novel approach based on measuring s...

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Autores: Sanchez-Ruiz, Antonio, Ontañón, Santiago, Gonzalez-Calero, Pedro A., Plaza, Enric
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/155504
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/155504
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Conjunctive queries
Description logics
Similarity assessment
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Sumario:Similarity assessment is a key operation in several areas of artificial intelligence. This paper focuses on measuring similarity in the context of Description Logics (DL), and specifically on similarity between individuals. The main contribution of this paper is a novel approach based on measuring similarity in the space of Conjunctive Queries, rather than in the space of concepts. The advantage of this approach is two fold. On the one hand, it is independent of the underlying DL and therefore there is no need to design similarity measures for different DL, and, on the other hand, the approach is computationally more efficient than searching in the space of concepts. © 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York.