Extracting a justification for OWL ontologies by critical axioms |
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Authors: | Yuxin YE Xianji CUI Dantong OUYANG |
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Affiliation: | 1. College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China2. Key Lab of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering (Jilin University), Ministry of Education, Changchun 130012, Chin3. College of Information and Communication Engineering, Dalian Minzu University, Dalian 116600, China |
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Abstract: | Extracting justifications for web ontology language (OWL) ontologies is an important mission in ontology engineering. In this paper, we focus on black-box techniques which are based on ontology reasoners. Through creating a recursive expansion procedure, all elements which are called critical axioms in the justification are explored one by one. In this detection procedure, an axiom selection function is used to avoid testing irrelevant axioms. In addition, an incremental reasoning procedure has been proposed in order to substitute series of standard reasoning tests w.r.t. satisfiability. It is implemented by employing a pseudo model to detect “obvious” satisfiability directly. The experimental results show that our proposed strategy for extracting justifications for OWL ontologies by adopting incremental expansion is superior to traditional Black-box methods in terms of efficiency and performance. |
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