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The Semantic Web lacks support for explaining answers from web applications. When applications return answers, many users do not know what information sources were used, when they were updated, how reliable the source was, or what information was looked up versus derived. Many users also do not know how implicit answers were derived. The Inference Web (IW) aims to take opaque query answers and make the answers more transparent by providing infrastructure for presenting and managing explanations. The explanations include information concerning where answers came from (knowledge provenance) and how they were derived (or retrieved). In this article we describe an infrastructure for IW explanations. The infrastructure includes: IWBase -an extensible web-based registry containing details about information sources, reasoners, languages, and rewrite rules; PML -the Proof Markup Language specification and API used for encoding portable proofs; IW browser -a tool supporting navigation and presentations of proofs and their explanations; and a new explanation dialogue component. Source information in the IWBase is used to convey knowledge provenance. Representation and reasoning language axio

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Author

Deborah L. McGuinness; Paulo Pinheiro da Silva

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 1570-8268)

Published

2004

Language

EN

Field

Computer Science (Physical Sciences)