Translating FOL-theories into SROIQ-Tboxes

Abstract

Logical languages provide rigid formalisms for theories with varying expressive and scalable powers. In ontology engineering, it is popular to to provide a two-folded formalization of a theory; an expressive FOL formalization, and a decidable SROIQ fragment. Such a task requires a systematic and principled translation of the set of FOL formulas to achieve a maximally expressive decidable fragment. While no principled work exists for providing guidelines for the translation of FOL theories into SROIQ knowledge bases, this paper contributes with such a translation procedure.