Jean Christoph Jung and Carsten Lutz, Ontology-Based Access to Probabilistic Data with OWL QL, in Proceedings of the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012), Boston, US, November, 2012. [PDF(local)], [PDF(online)]

Abstract:
We propose a framework for querying probabilistic instance data in the presence of an OWL2 QL ontology, arguing that the interplay of probabilities and ontologies is fruitful in many applications such as managing data that was extracted from the web. The prime inference problem is computing answer probabilities, and it can be implemented using standard probabilistic database systems. We establish a PTime vs. #P dichotomy for the data complexity of this problem by lifting a corresponding result from probabilistic databases. We also demonstrate that query rewriting (backwards chaining) is an important tool for our framework, show that non-existence of a rewriting into first-order logic implies #P-hardness, and briefly discuss approximation of answer probabilities.

BibTex:

    @InProceedings { iswc2012paper-research-16,
      author = { Jean Christoph Jung and Carsten Lutz },
      title = { Ontology-Based Access to Probabilistic Data with OWL QL },
      booktitle = { Proceedings of the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012) },
      address = {Boston, US},
      month = { November },
      year = { 2012 },
    }

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