In this paper we develop a sound, complete and terminating superposition calculus plus a query answering calculus for the BSH-Y2 fragment of the Bernays – Schönfinkel Horn class of first-order logic. BSH-Y2 can be used to represent expressive ontologies. In addition to checking consistency, our calculus supports query answering for queries with arbitrary quantifier alternations. Experiments on ...

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