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Reasoning with concept diagrams about antipatterns in ontologies

Accepted version
Peer-reviewed

Type

Conference Object

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Authors

Stapleton, G 
Sato, Y 

Abstract

© Springer International Publishing AG 2017. Ontologies are notoriously hard to define, express and reason about. Many tools have been developed to ease the ontology debugging and reasoning, however they often lack accessibility and formalisation. A visual representation language, concept diagrams, was developed for expressing ontologies, which has been empirically proven to be cognitively more accessible to ontology users. In this paper we answer the question of “How can concept diagrams be used to reason about inconsistencies and incoherence of ontologies?". We do so by formalising a set of inference rules for concept diagrams that enables stepwise verification of the inconsistency and incoherence of a set of ontology axioms. The design of inference rules is driven by empirical evidence that concise (merged) diagrams are easier to comprehend for users than a set of lower level diagrams that are a one-to-one translation from OWL ontology axioms. We prove that our inference rules are sound, and exemplify how they can be used to reason about inconsistencies and incoherence.

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Keywords

46 Information and Computing Sciences, 4602 Artificial Intelligence

Journal Title

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Conference Name

CICM 2017

Journal ISSN

0302-9743
1611-3349

Volume Title

10383 LNAI

Publisher

Springer
Sponsorship
Leverhulme Trust (RPG-2016-082)