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On the Eve of True Explainability for OWL Ontologies: Description Logic Proofs with Evee and Evonne (Extended Version)
Christian Alrabbaa, Stefan Borgwardt, Tom Friese, Patrick Koopmann, Julián Méndez, Alexej Popovič
When working with description logic ontologies, understanding entailments derived by a description logic reasoner is not always straightforward. So far, the standard ontology editor Prot\'eg\'e offers two services to help: (black-box) justifications for OWL 2 DL ontologies, and (glass-box) proofs for lightweight OWL EL ontologies, where the latter exploits the proof facilities of reasoner ELK. Since justifications are often insufficient in explaining inferences, there is thus only little tool support for explaining inferences in more expressive DLs. In this paper, we introduce EVEE-LIBS, a Java library for computing proofs for DLs up to ALCH, and EVEE-PROTEGE, a collection of Prot\'eg\'e plugins for displaying those proofs in Prot\'eg\'e. We also give a short glimpse of the latest version of EVONNE, a more advanced standalone application for displaying and interacting with proofs computed with EVEE-LIBS.
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