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Explanation Ontology

Ontology has been cleared for release and is made available as an open-source resource under the Apache 2.0 license

We have designed an explanation ontology that captures the aspects of explanations related to their generation from a system's perspective while accounting for factors from an end-user's perspective. Through our modeling of the components involved in the process of explanation generation, we provide a means for system designers to translate their user requirements gathered from user studies to explanations that can be generated by their systems. We depict how our ontology schema can support the modeling of different literature-derived explanation types that help address the diverse needs of user-centric explainability.

Fig. 1: A conceptual overview of our Explanation Ontology with the relationships between the main classes highlighted. We have used color shading in this diagram to depict the separation between user, system and interface attributes. The interface attributes are those which would be visible to the end-user via system's views.

Ontology Metadata

Metadata that would be useful to navigate our resources, i.e., ontology, modeling snippets and SPARQL queries. The content below can also be viewed by inspecting our explanation ontology in an ontology editor, like, Protege 5.5.0.

Ontologies Reused

Ontology Prefixes

Prefix Links
rdf Resource Description Framework
rdfs RDF Schema
owl Web Ontology Language
xsd XML Schema Definition
dct Dublin Core Term
skos Simple Knowledge Organization System
eo Explanation Ontology
sio SemanticScience Integrated Ontology
ep Explanations Pattern Ontology
ep Provenance Ontology
obo OBO Foundry