Re: Reasoning Engine / Explanation / Prooof

Danny --



At 01:41 PM 11/25/2005 +0100, you wrote:



>PS. What would be
very useful to have would be some kind of

>explanation (/proof) mechanism
available with the results - so when

>"population US" is solved by a "Semantic
Web search and reasoning

>engine", producing a single anwer: 278058881, you
can tell it's what

>you intended, and not the population of  "us", the subscribers
to

>semantic-web@w3.org...



There has been extensive research on the generation
of explanations in the expert system community.



A couple of starting points
for those that which to dig deeper: 



KNIGHT: Lester, J. C. & Porter, B.
W. (1997) Developing and empirically evaluating robust explanation generators:
the KNIGHT experiments.  Computational Linguistics. 23(1), 65-101.

TEXPLAN:
Maybury, M. T. (1992) Communicative acts for explanation generation. International
Journal of Man-Machine Studies,  37( 2),  135-172 and Maybury, M. T. (1998)
Planning multimedia explanations using communicative acts. In  Mark T. Maybury
and Wolfgang Wahlster (Eds.) Readings in Intelligent User Interfaces. San
Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., 99-109.

TRI: Domingue, J.
(1988) TRI: The transparent rule interpreter. Research and Development in
Expert Systems V. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 126-138.

A nice overview
can be found in the dissertation 

Mechanisms for Answering "Why not" Querstion
in Rule- and Object-based systems

http://cis2.stvincent.edu/martincc/disstrttn2.doc
(only availlable as .doc)



cu



valentin zacharias

http://vzach.blogspot.com/

Received on Saturday, 26 November 2005 19:51:39 UTC