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Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web

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The Semantic Web has attracted much attention, both from academia and industry. An important role in research towards the Semantic Web is played by formalisms and technologies for handling uncertainty and/or vagueness. In this paper, I first provide some motivating examples for handling uncertainty and/or vagueness in the Semantic Web. I then give an overview of some own formalisms for handling uncertainty and/or vagueness in the Semantic Web.

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This work was supported the UK EPSRC grants EP/J008346/1, EP/L012138/1, EP/M025268/1, and EP/N510129/1.

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Lukasiewicz, T. (2017). Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web. In: Ianni, G., et al. Reasoning Web. Semantic Interoperability on the Web. Reasoning Web 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10370. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61033-7_8

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