Reasoning with Ontologies

Dr Tommie Meyer
Research Scientist
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Program
National ICT Australia

Tuesday 16th August 2005 at 11am

Abstract

Recent advances in theorem proving for description logics have made it possible to automate practical reasoning with large ontologies. However, while current ontology reasoners can handle classical reasoning problems such as subsumption, instance checking, and consistency checking, they are incapable of dealing with conflicts in meaningful ways. In this talk I will outline some recent work by our group on ways of managing inconsistent ontologies. This work is part of a larger project on ontology management and navigation, and I will also briefly discuss the main components of the project.

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Short resume

Thomas Meyer is a research scientist in the Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) program of National ICT Australia (NICTA). Before that he was an associate professor in Computer Science at the University of Pretoria, and a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of South Africa. Thomas has published widely in the areas of belief revision and nonmonotonic reasoning. His current research is focused on reasoning with ontologies, and reasoning about preferences. For more details, go to http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~tmeyer

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