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Description Logics as Ontology Languages for the Semantic Web

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Mechanizing Mathematical Reasoning

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The vision of a Semantic Web has recently drawn considerable attention, both from academia and industry. Description logics are often named as one of the tools that can support the Semantic Web and thus help to make this vision reality.

In this paper, we describe what description logics are and what they can do for the Semantic Web. Descriptions logics are very useful for defining, integrating, and maintaining ontologies, which provide the Semantic Web with a common understanding of the basic semantic concepts used to annotate Web pages. We also argue that, without the last decade of basic research in this area, description logics could not play such an important rôle in this domain.

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Baader, F., Horrocks, I., Sattler, U. (2005). Description Logics as Ontology Languages for the Semantic Web. In: Hutter, D., Stephan, W. (eds) Mechanizing Mathematical Reasoning. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2605. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32254-2_14

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