A description logic of typicality for conceptual combination

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We propose a nonmonotonic Description Logic of typicality able to account for the phenomenon of combining prototypical concepts, an open problem in the fields of AI and cognitive modelling. Our logic extends the logic of typicality ALC+TR, based on the notion of rational closure, by inclusions (“we have probability p that typical Cs are Ds”), coming from the distributed semantics of probabilistic Description Logics. Additionally, it embeds a set of cognitive heuristics for concept combination. We show that the complexity of reasoning in our logic is ExpTime-complete as in.

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Lieto, A., & Pozzato, G. L. (2018). A description logic of typicality for conceptual combination. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 11177 LNAI, pp. 189–199). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01851-1_19

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