Pellet

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Pellet

Name of the tool:	Pellet
Home page:	http://pellet.owldl.com/
Date of latest release:
Programming language(s) that can be used with the tool:	Java
Relevant semantic web technologies:	OWL, RDFS, RDF
Categories:	Reasoner, OWL Reasoner
See also:	http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Pellet
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Company or institution:	Clark & Parsia, LLC

(Tool description last modified on 2011-1-9.)

Description

Pellet is an open-source Java based OWL 2 reasoner. It can be used in conjunction with both Jena and OWL API libraries; it can also be downloaded and be included in other applications. Pellet includes support for OWL 2 profiles including OWL 2 EL. It incorporates optimizations for nominals, conjunctive query answering, and incremental reasoning.