Towards Pragmatic Explanations for Domain Ontologies

Proc. of the 23rd Int. Conf. on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2022). Volume 13514 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. 2022.

Ontologies have gained popularity in a wide range of research fields, in the domains where possible interpretations of terms have to be narrowed and there is a need for explicit inter-relations of concepts. Although reusability has always been claimed as one of the main characteristics of ontologies, it has been shown that reusing domain ontologies is not a common practice. Perhaps this is due to the fact that despite a large number of works towards complexity management of ontologies, popular systems do not incorporate enough functionality for ontology explanation. We analyse the state of the art and substantiate a minimal functionality that the system should provide in order to make domain ontologies better understandable for their users.

@inproceedings{EKAW-2022,
   title = "Towards Pragmatic Explanations for Domain Ontologies",
   year = "2022",
  author = "Elena Romanenko and Diego Calvanese and Giancarlo Guizzardi",
   booktitle = "Proc. of the 23rd Int. Conf. on Knowledge Engineering and
Knowledge Management (EKAW 2022)",
   pages = "201--208",
   volume = "13514",
   publisher = "Springer",
   series = "Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence",
   doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-17105-5_15",
}