RE: ISSUE-52 (Explanations): Specification of OWL equivalences and rewriting rules for explaining inferences

Consider two axioms in the KB, 

A subClass B

B subClass C

C subClass D

 

and the reasoner infers A subClass D

 

Inference = A subClass D

Proof = listOf(Entailment1, Entailment2)

 

Entailment1 = (A subClass B,, B subClass C) entails (A subClass C)

Entailment2 = (A subClass C, C subClass D) entails (A subClass D)

 

Explanation = verbalization(Proof) = listOf(Explanation1, Explanation2)

Explanation1 = verbalization(Entailment1) = "If A is a subClass of B and B is a
subClass of C then it follows that A is a subClass of C".

 

...

 

Would propose that the OWL 1.1 specification support constructs for Proof,
Entailment, Explanation...

as these can then be exchanged between tools and applications and persisted in a
standardized format.

 

How various tools and reaonsers generate and display these explanations is
probably not the focus of this WG.

 

Look forward to feedback and suggestions.

 

---Vipul

 

 

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From: public-owl-wg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-owl-wg-request@w3.org] On
Behalf Of Alan Ruttenberg
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 8:44 PM
To: public-owl-wg@w3.org
Subject: Re: ISSUE-52 (Explanations): Specification of OWL equivalences and
rewriting rules for explaining inferences

 

Sent a note to Vipul directly, but then realized it should go to list.

 

Basically, I'm not sure exactly what is meant by this. It would be helpful for
me to get some pseudo owl examples of what this would look like.

 

Regards,

Alan

 

 

On Nov 3, 2007, at 1:28 PM, Kashyap, Vipul wrote:





Clarification on this ISSUE-52"

 

Would like to propose that constructs for the following "extra-logical ?"
features be included in the OWL 1.1 Spec

 

1.	Proofs - probably as a sequence of entailments
2.	Entailments
3.	Explanations - probably as a human readable verbalizations of
entailments

 

The use case for the above is the need for an explanation feature for developing
and debugging large scale OWL ontologies.

A standardized specification of the above would enable better tool support for
these features enabling sharing of explanations

across tools and applications.. This will increase productivity of the ontology
developer.

 

Would like to discuss how this ISSUE is viewed as being within or beyond the
scope of the current WG.

 

---Vipul

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