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Why Not? Explaining Missing Entailments with Evee (Technical Report)

Artificial Intelligence 2023-08-16 v2 Logic in Computer Science

Abstract

Understanding logical entailments derived by a description logic reasoner is not always straight-forward for ontology users. For this reason, various methods for explaining entailments using justifications and proofs have been developed and implemented as plug-ins for the ontology editor Prot\'eg\'e. However, when the user expects a missing consequence to hold, it is equally important to explain why it does not follow from the ontology. In this paper, we describe a new version of EVEE\rm E{\scriptsize VEE}, a Prot\'eg\'e plugin that now also provides explanations for missing consequences, via existing and new techniques based on abduction and counterexamples.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2308.07294,
  title  = {Why Not? Explaining Missing Entailments with Evee (Technical Report)},
  author = {Christian Alrabbaa and Stefan Borgwardt and Tom Friese and Patrick Koopmann and Mikhail Kotlov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.07294},
  year   = {2023}
}
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