Combining Description Logics with synopses for inferring complex knowledge patterns from XML sources

This paper illustrates how a Description Logics fragment, combined with a specific data compression technique, can be used for inferring complex intensional knowledge patterns from a set of semantically heterogeneous XML sources. The paper first provides a detailed description of the various steps of our approach; then, it describes some experiments performed to test its accuracy; after this, it presents a wide range of applications possibly benefiting from inferred patterns; finally, it compares our approach with the related ones previously proposed in the literature.