VLog: A Rule Engine for Knowledge Graphs

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VLog: A Rule Engine for Knowledge Graphs

David CarralDavid Carral,  Irina DragosteIrina Dragoste,  Larry GonzálezLarry González,  Ceriel JacobsCeriel Jacobs,  Markus KrötzschMarkus Krötzsch,  Jacopo UrbaniJacopo Urbani
David Carral, Irina Dragoste, Larry González, Ceriel Jacobs, Markus Krötzsch, Jacopo Urbani
VLog: A Rule Engine for Knowledge Graphs
In Chiara Ghidini, Olaf Hartig, Maria Maleshkova, Vojtěch Svátek, Isabel F. Cruz, Aidan Hogan, Jie Song, Maxime Lefrançois, Fabien Gandon, eds., Proceedings of the 18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC'19) Part II, volume 11779 of LNCS, 2019. Springer
  • KurzfassungAbstract
    Knowledge graphs are crucial assets for tasks like query answering or data integration. These tasks can be viewed as reasoning problems, which in turn require efficient reasoning systems to be implemented. To this end, we present VLog, a rule-based reasoner designed to satisfy the requirements of modern use cases, with a focus on performance and adaptability to different scenarios. We address the former with a novel vertical storage layout, and the latter by abstracting the access to data sources and providing a platform-independent Java API. Features of VLog include fast Datalog materialisation, support for reasoning with existential rules, stratified negation, and data integration from a variety of sources, such as high-performance RDF stores, relational databases, CSV files, OWL ontologies, and remote SPARQL endpoints.
  • Bemerkung: Note: This publication has received the Best Paper Award (Resources Track) at ISWC 2019!
  • Projekt:Project: CPECDIAMOND
  • Forschungsgruppe:Research Group: Wissensbasierte SystemeKnowledge-Based Systems
The final publication is available at Springer.
@inproceedings{CDGJKU2019,
  author    = {David Carral and Irina Dragoste and Larry Gonz{\'{a}}lez and
               Ceriel Jacobs and Markus Kr{\"{o}}tzsch and Jacopo Urbani},
  title     = {VLog: A Rule Engine for Knowledge Graphs},
  editor    = {Chiara Ghidini and Olaf Hartig and Maria Maleshkova and
               Vojt{\v{e}}ch Sv{\'{a}}tek and Isabel F. Cruz and Aidan Hogan and
               Jie Song and Maxime Lefran{\c{c}}ois and Fabien Gandon},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th International Semantic Web Conference
               (ISWC'19) Part {II}},
  series    = {LNCS},
  volume    = {11779},
  publisher = {Springer},
  year      = {2019}
}