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The '''Semantic Web Rule Language''' ('''SWRL''') is a proposed language for the [[Semantic Web]] that can be used to express rules as well as logic, combining [[Web Ontology Language|OWL DL]] or OWL Lite with a subset of the [[RuleML|Rule Markup Language]] (itself a subset of [[Datalog]]).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.w3.org/Submission/SWRL/|title=SWRL: A Semantic Web Rule Language Combining OWL and RuleML|website=www.w3.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-21}}</ref>

The specification was submitted in May 2004 to the [[W3C]] by the [[National Research Council of Canada]], Network Inference (since acquired by [[webMethods]]), and [[Stanford University]] in association with the Joint US/EU ad hoc Agent Markup Language Committee. The specification was based on an earlier proposal for an OWL rules language.<ref name="Horrocks2004">{{Cite conference