Wikidata Constraints on MARS (Extended Technical Report)

Autor: Martin, David L., Patel-Schneider, Peter F.
Rok vydání: 2020
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
Popis: Wikidata constraints, albeit useful, are represented and processed in an incomplete, ad hoc fashion. Constraint declarations do not fully express their meaning, and thus do not provide a precise, unambiguous basis for constraint specification, or a logical foundation for constraint-checking implementations. In prior work we have proposed a logical framework for Wikidata as a whole, based on multi-attributed relational structures (MARS) and related logical languages. In this paper we explain how constraints are handled in the proposed framework, and show that nearly all of Wikidata's existing property constraints can be completely characterized in it, in a natural and economical fashion. We also give characterizations for several proposed property constraints, and show that a variety of non-property constraints can be handled in the same framework.
Comment: 22 pages, no figures. V2 includes a title change, revision of the abstract, and a handful of minor changes in the body of the paper and the appendix
Databáze: arXiv