When OWL met DL-Lite
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Recent research in the area of ontology representation for the Semantic Web has led to several different language proposals. Among the others, it led to the standardization of OWL, on one hand, and to the emergence of the DL-Lite family of Description Logics, on the other hand. These two outcomes mainly differ on their objective: while OWL aims to be a standard, and as such, it is tailored towards expressivity, the main goal of the languages in the DL-Lite family is to allow accessing huge amount of data, by maintaining tractability, and delegating query processing to a DBMS. In this paper we show how DL-Lite can meet OWL. Specifically, we focus on DL-LiteA, the language in the DL-Lite family that is closest to OWL, and introduce the SparSQL language, a concrete epistemic query language, inspired by both SQL and SPARQL, that allows posing expressive tractable queries over DL-LiteA ontologies. Finally, we introduce the main novel DL-LiteA features beyond OWL. The capability of handling such features, together with the SparSQL queries, are some of the new functionalities recently implemented in the MASTRO system.
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