OWL 2 has been standardized by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as a
family of ontology languages for the Semantic Web. The most expressive of these
languages is OWL 2 Full, but to date no reasoner has been implemented for this
language. Consistency and entailment checking are known to be undecidable for
OWL 2 Full. We have translated a large fragment of the OWL 2 Full semantics
into first-order logic, and used automated theorem proving systems to do
reasoning based on this theory. The results are promising, and indicate that
this approach can be applied in practice for effective OWL reasoning, beyond
the capabilities of current Semantic Web reasoners.
This is an extended version of a paper with the same title that has been
published at CADE 2011, LNAI 6803, pp. 446-460. The extended version provides
appendices with additional resources that were used in the reported evaluation
