Nortje, RBritz, KMeyer, T2010-08-182010-08-182009-12Nortje, R, Britz, K, and Meyer, T. 2009. Finding EL+ justifications using the Earley parsing algorithm. 5th Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2009), Melbourne, Australia, 1 December 2009. Published in 'Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT)' series, vol. 112, pp 109781920682910http://ksg.meraka.org.za/~aow2009/aow09-preproceedings.pdfhttp://ksg.meraka.org.za/~aow2009/Nortje-ea_AOW2009.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10204/41565th Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2009), Melbourne, Australia, 1 December 2009Module extraction plays an important role in the reuse of ontologies as well as in the simplification and optimization of some reasoning tasks such as finding justifications for entailments. In this paper the authors focus on the paper of extracting small modules for EL+ entailment based on reachability. The authors extend the current notion of forward reachability to obtain a bi-directional version, and show that the bi-directional reachability algorithm allows the authors to transform EL+ ontology into a reachability preserving context free grammar (CFG). The well known earley algorithm for parsing strings, given some CFG, is then applied to the problem of extracting minimal reachability-based axiom sets for subsumption entailments. The author has shown that each reachability-based axiom set produced by the early algorithm corresponds to a possible Minimal Axiom Set (Mena) that preserves the given entailment. This approach has two advantages - it has the potential to reduce the number of subsumption tests performed during MinA during extraction, as well to minimize the number of axioms for each such test.enOntologiesEarley parsing algorithmContext free grammarCFGMinimal axiom setMinA5th Australasian Ontology WorkshopAOW 2009Finding EL+ justifications using the Earley parsing algorithmConference PresentationNortje, R., Britz, K., & Meyer, T. (2009). Finding EL+ justifications using the Earley parsing algorithm. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4156Nortje, R, K Britz, and T Meyer. "Finding EL+ justifications using the Earley parsing algorithm." (2009): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4156Nortje R, Britz K, Meyer T, Finding EL+ justifications using the Earley parsing algorithm; 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4156 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Nortje, R AU - Britz, K AU - Meyer, T AB - Module extraction plays an important role in the reuse of ontologies as well as in the simplification and optimization of some reasoning tasks such as finding justifications for entailments. In this paper the authors focus on the paper of extracting small modules for EL+ entailment based on reachability. The authors extend the current notion of forward reachability to obtain a bi-directional version, and show that the bi-directional reachability algorithm allows the authors to transform EL+ ontology into a reachability preserving context free grammar (CFG). The well known earley algorithm for parsing strings, given some CFG, is then applied to the problem of extracting minimal reachability-based axiom sets for subsumption entailments. The author has shown that each reachability-based axiom set produced by the early algorithm corresponds to a possible Minimal Axiom Set (Mena) that preserves the given entailment. This approach has two advantages - it has the potential to reduce the number of subsumption tests performed during MinA during extraction, as well to minimize the number of axioms for each such test. DA - 2009-12 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Ontologies KW - Earley parsing algorithm KW - Context free grammar KW - CFG KW - Minimal axiom set KW - MinA KW - 5th Australasian Ontology Workshop KW - AOW 2009 LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2009 SM - 9781920682910 T1 - Finding EL+ justifications using the Earley parsing algorithm TI - Finding EL+ justifications using the Earley parsing algorithm UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4156 ER -