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2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'06)
A Fine-Grained Approach to Resolving Unsatisfiable Ontologies
Hong Kong, China
December 18-December 22
ISBN: 0-7695-2747-7
Sik Chun Lam, University of Aberdeen, UK
Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK
Derek Sleeman, University of Aberdeen, UK
Wamberto Vasconcelos, University of Aberdeen, UK
In the Semantic Web, inconsistencies in OWL on- tologies may easily occur. Existing approaches ei- ther identify the minimally unsatisfiable sub-ontologies or calculate the maximally satisfiable sub-ontologies. However practical problems remain; it is not clear which axioms or which parts of axioms should be se- lected for repair, and how to repair those axioms. In this paper, we address this limitation by proposing a fine-grained approach to resolving unsatisfiable ontolo- gies. We revise the axiom tracing technique first pro- posed by Baader and Hollunder, so as to track which parts of the problematic axioms cause the unsatisfiabil- ity. Moreover, we support ontology users in rewriting problematic axioms. In order to minimise the impact of changes and prevent unintended entailment loss, harm- ful and helpful changes are identified and provided as guidelines. Based on the methods described we present a preliminary version of an interactive debugging tool and demonstrate its applicability in practice.
Citation:
Sik Chun Lam, Jeff Z. Pan, Derek Sleeman, Wamberto Vasconcelos, "A Fine-Grained Approach to Resolving Unsatisfiable Ontologies," wi, pp.428-434, 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'06), 2006
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