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Knowledge Systems Laboratory
Stanford University
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Abstract: Asking Queries About Frames
Frame-based knowledge representation and reasoning systems
typically provide procedural interfaces for asking about
properties of individuals and concepts. We propose an
alternative declarative approach that extends standard interface
functionality by supporting selective viewing of components of
complex objects. Instead of just returning sets of individuals,
our queries match concepts and filtered fragments of
descriptions. The query language is an extended form of the
language used to describe the knowledge-base contents, thus
facilitating user training. In this paper, we describe a variety of
possible semantics for answering queries in description logics.
We investigate the algorithms required when answers are
deduced by matching queries against a ``structural normal
form'' of descriptions. As part of our approach, we introduce a
useful refinement of the notion of structural subsumption.
Alex Borgida and
Deborah L. McGuinness.
``
Asking Queries About Frames
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in the
Proceedings of the Fifth International
Conference on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning ,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, November, 1996.
Morgan Kaufmann.
Also appears in Proceedings of International Workshop on Description
Logics, Cambridge, Mass., November 1996.
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