Probabilistic DL Reasoning with Pinpointing Formulas: A Prolog-based Approach. Issue 3 (14th January 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: ZESE, RICCARDO; COTA, GIUSEPPE; LAMMA, EVELINA; BELLODI, ELENA; RIGUZZI, FABRIZIO
• Is Part Of: Theory and practice of logic programming. Volume 19:Issue 3(2019)
• Page Start: 449
• Page End: 476
• Publication Date: 2019-01-14
• Subjects: probabilistic description logics, -- Semantic Web, -- Binary Decision Diagram, -- tableau, -- Prolog; Logic programming -- Periodicals; Artificial intelligence -- Computer programs -- Periodicals; Constraint programming (Computer science) -- Periodicals; 005.115
• DOI: 10.1017/S1471068418000480
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1471-0684

Abstract

Abstract: When modeling real-world domains, we have to deal with information that is incomplete or that comes from sources with different trust levels. This motivates the need for managing uncertainty in the Semantic Web. To this purpose, we introduced a probabilistic semantics, named DISPONTE, in order to combine description logics (DLs) with probability theory. The probability of a query can be then computed from the set of its explanations by building a Binary Decision Diagram (BDD). The set of explanations can be found using the tableau algorithm, which has to handle non-determinism. Prolog, with its efficient handling of non-determinism, is suitable for implementing the tableau algorithm. TRILL and TRILL P are systems offering a Prolog implementation of the tableau algorithm. TRILL P builds a pinpointing formula that compactly represents the set of explanations and can be directly translated into a BDD. Both reasoners were shown to outperform state-of-the-art DL reasoners. In this paper, we present an improvement of TRILL P, named TORNADO, in which the BDD is directly built during the construction of the tableau, further speeding up the overall inference process. An experimental comparison shows the effectiveness of TORNADO. All systems can be tried online in the TRILL on SWISH web application athttp://trill.ml.unife.it/ .