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.

Ontology Links

• Ontology documentation generated using the Widoco tool can be browsed at: https://tetherless-world.github.io/explanation-ontology/WidocoDocumentation/index-en.html
• Ontology can be accessed from https://purl.org/heals/eo
• V2: https://purl.org/heals/eo/2.0.0
• V1: https://purl.org/heals/eo/1.0.0
• If the PURL service doesn't work, please use this shortened URL pointing to the ontology resource. https://bit.ly/3vD4mmD