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In order to meet usability requirements, most logic-based applications provide explanation facilities for reasoning services. This holds also for Description Logics, where research has focused on the explanation of both TBox reasoning and,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Diego Calvanese , Magdalena Ortiz , Mantas Simkus , Giorgio Stefanoni

In ontology-mediated query answering, access to incomplete data sources is mediated by a conceptual layer constituted by an ontology, which can be formulated in a description logic (DL) or using existential rules. In the literature, there…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Christian Alrabbaa , Stefan Borgwardt , Patrick Koopmann , Alisa Kovtunova

In ontology-mediated query answering, access to incomplete data sources is mediated by a conceptual layer constituted by an ontology. To correctly compute answers to queries, it is necessary to perform complex reasoning over the constraints…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Christian Alrabbaa , Stefan Borgwardt , Patrick Koopmann , Alisa Kovtunova

Understanding the uncertainty in large language model (LLM) explanations is important for evaluating their faithfulness and reasoning consistency, and thus provides insights into the reliability of LLM's output regarding a question. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Longchao Da , Xiaoou Liu , Jiaxin Dai , Lu Cheng , Yaqing Wang , Hua Wei

Explainability has been a goal for Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems since their conception, with the need for explainability growing as more complex AI models are increasingly used in critical, high-stakes settings such as healthcare.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Shruthi Chari , Oshani Seneviratne , Daniel M. Gruen , Morgan A. Foreman , Amar K. Das , Deborah L. McGuinness

Time complexity in rewriting is naturally understood as the number of steps needed to reduce terms to normal forms. Establishing complexity bounds to this measure is a well-known problem in the rewriting community. A vast majority of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Liye Guo , Deivid Vale

We develop a class of algebraic interpretations for many-sorted and higher-order term rewriting systems that takes type information into account. Specifically, base-type terms are mapped to \emph{tuples} of natural numbers and higher-order…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Deivid Vale , Cynthia Kop

Tuple interpretations are a class of algebraic interpretation that subsumes both polynomial and matrix interpretations as it does not impose simple termination and allows non-linear interpretations. It was developed in the context of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Cynthia Kop , Deivid Vale

In sensitive contexts, providers of machine learning algorithms are increasingly required to give explanations for their algorithms' decisions. However, explanation receivers might not trust the provider, who potentially could output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Robi Bhattacharjee , Ulrike von Luxburg

The need for an ontological layer on top of data, associated with advanced reasoning mechanisms able to exploit the semantics encoded in ontologies, has been acknowledged both in the database and knowledge representation communities. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Sebastian Rudolph , Michaël Thomazo , Jean-François Baget , Marie-Laure Mugnier

Generalized contextuality is a hallmark of nonclassical theories like quantum mechanics. Yet, three fundamental computational problems concerning its decidability and complexity remain open. First, determining the complexity of deciding if…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Theodoros Yianni , Farid Shahandeh

The emergence of tools based on artificial intelligence has also led to the need of producing explanations which are understandable by a human being. In most approaches, the system is considered a black box, making it difficult to generate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Germán Vidal

To achieve scalability of query answering, the developers of Semantic Web applications are often forced to use incomplete OWL 2 reasoners, which fail to derive all answers for at least one query, ontology, and data set. The lack of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Bernardo Cuenca Grau , Boris Motik , Giorgos Stoilos , Ian Horrocks

Ontology-based data access (OBDA) is a popular paradigm for querying heterogeneous data sources by connecting them through mappings to an ontology. In OBDA, it is often difficult to reconstruct why a tuple occurs in the answer of a query.…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Diego Calvanese , Davide Lanti , Ana Ozaki , Rafael Penaloza , Guohui Xiao

In the practical deployment of machine learning (ML) models, missing data represents a recurring challenge. Missing data is often addressed when training ML models. But missing data also needs to be addressed when deciding predictions and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Ramón Béjar , António Morgado , Jordi Planes , Joao Marques-Silva

We addressed the problem of a lack of semantic representation for user-centric explanations and different explanation types in our Explanation Ontology (https://purl.org/heals/eo). Such a representation is increasingly necessary as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Shruthi Chari , Oshani Seneviratne , Daniel M. Gruen , Morgan A. Foreman , Amar K. Das , Deborah L. McGuinness

Explanations of Machine Learning (ML) models often address a 'Why?' question. Such explanations can be related with selecting feature-value pairs which are sufficient for the prediction. Recent work has investigated explanations that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Alexey Ignatiev , Nina Narodytska , Nicholas Asher , Joao Marques-Silva

Large Language Models (LLMs), despite their success in question answering, exhibit limitations in complex multi-hop question answering (MQA) tasks that necessitate non-linear, structured reasoning. This limitation stems from their inability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Haonan Bian , Yutao Qi , Rui Yang , Yuanxi Che , Jiaqian Wang , Heming Xia , Ranran Zhen

Developing explainability methods for Natural Language Processing (NLP) models is a challenging task, for two main reasons. First, the high dimensionality of the data (large number of tokens) results in low coverage and in turn small…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Peyman Jalali , Nengfeng Zhou , Yufei Yu

To assist non-specialists in formulating database queries, multiple frameworks that automatically infer queries from a set of examples have been proposed. While highly useful, a shortcoming of the approach is that if users can only provide…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Daniel Deutch , Amir Gilad
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