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Querying Formal Contexts with Answer Set Programs

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Conceptual Structures: Inspiration and Application (ICCS 2006)

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Recent studies showed how a seamless integration of formal concept analysis (FCA), logic of domains, and answer set programming (ASP) can be achieved. Based on these results for combining hierarchical knowledge with classical rule-based formalisms, we introduce an expressive common-sense query language for formal contexts. Although this approach is conceptually based on order-theoretic paradigms, we show how it can be implemented on top of standard ASP systems. Advanced features, such as default negation and disjunctive rules, thus become practically available for processing contextual data.

The authors acknowledge support by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under the SmartWeb project, and by the European Commission under contract IST-2003-506826 SEKT and under the KnowledgeWeb Network of Excellence.

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  1. AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

    Pascal Hitzler & Markus Krötzsch

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  1. Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University,  

    Henrik Schärfe

  2. AIFB Institute, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), D-76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Pascal Hitzler

  3. Department of Communication, Aalborg University, Kroghstraede 3, 9220, Aalborg, Denmark

    Peter Øhrstrøm

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Hitzler, P., Krötzsch, M. (2006). Querying Formal Contexts with Answer Set Programs. In: Schärfe, H., Hitzler, P., Øhrstrøm, P. (eds) Conceptual Structures: Inspiration and Application. ICCS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4068. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11787181_19

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