Pellet: A practical OWL-DL reasoner

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Evren Sirin, Bijan Parsia, Bernardo C. Grau, Aditya Kalyanpur, Yarden Katz
Journal of Web Semantics 5(2), pages 51–53
June 2007

In this paper, we present a brief overview of Pellet: a complete OWL-DL reasoner with acceptable to very good performance, extensive middleware, and a number of unique features. Pellet is the first sound and complete OWL-DL reasoner with extensive support for reasoning with individuals (including nominal support and conjunctive query), user-defined datatypes, and debugging support for ontologies. It implements several extensions to OWL-DL including a combination formalism for OWL-DL ontologies, a non-monotonic operator, and preliminary support for OWL/Rule hybrid reasoning. Pellet is written in Java and is open source.

keywords   Web Ontology Language, Description logics, Tableau Theorem Proving
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