Re: question: translators from OWL 2 DL/Full to FOL

A clarification/correction:

I wrote:

 > The translation is a straight-forward implementation
 > of the semantic conditions in the OWL 2 RDF-Based
 > Semantics (including those from the RDF model-theory)
 > and goes from RDF/XML to the TPTP language

There are actually two things that are used to realize the translation: 
Firstly, there is a static set of FOL/TPTP formulae representing the 
(static set of) semantic conditions of the OWL 2 RDF-Based Semantics. 
Secondly, there is a translation of RDF graphs into FOL/TPTP formulae 
(these graph-based formulae look pretty much like just another RDF 
serialization). The latter is what the cited translation tool provides. 
The former is just a large file that never changes. For reasoning, you 
load the combined set of TPTP formulae into a first-order reasoning system.

It's similar to RDF-entailment rule reasoners, where you have a static 
file of rules representing the entailment regime (e.g. the OWL 2 RL/RDF 
rules) and an RDF graph translated into a set of fact-style rules, and 
then load everything into a rule engine to do reasoning.

Cheers,
Michael

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Received on Saturday, 14 January 2012 15:36:32 UTC