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The content-based representation of information, which tries to represent the meaning of the information in a machine-understandable way, requires representation formalisms with a well-defined formal semantics. This semantics can elegantly be provided by the use of a logic-based formalism. However, in this setting there is a fundamental tradeoff between the expressivity of the representation formalism and the efficiency of reasoning with this formalism. This motivates the “engineering of logics”, i.e., the design of logical formalisms that are tailored to specific representation tasks. The talk will illustrate this approach with the example of so-called Description Logics and their application for databases and as ontology languages for the semantic web.
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Baader, F. (2004). Engineering of Logics for the Content-Based Representation of Information. In: Alferes, J.J., Leite, J. (eds) Logics in Artificial Intelligence. JELIA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3229. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30227-8_2
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