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A Tableau-Based Explainer for DL Subsumption

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Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX 2005)

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This paper describes the implementation of a tableau-based reasoning component which is capable of providing quasi natural language explanations for subsumptions within \(\mathcal{ALEHF_R+}\) TBoxes.

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  1. Dept. of AI, University of Ulm, D-89069, Ulm, Germany

    Thorsten Liebig & Michael Halfmann

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Koblenz-Landau,  

    Bernhard Beckert

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Liebig, T., Halfmann, M. (2005). A Tableau-Based Explainer for DL Subsumption. In: Beckert, B. (eds) Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods. TABLEAUX 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3702. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11554554_26

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