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New method reconstructs original ontology rules from transformed versions

Researchers have developed a method to reconstruct original rule-based ontologies from transformed versions used in Datalog rule reasoners. This process aims to provide explanations for entailed facts that are understandable in terms of the initial rules, rather than the optimized, rewritten ones. The study analyzes the computational complexity of this reconstruction problem and identifies specific languages suitable for specifying the proof transformations involved. AI

IMPACT This research could improve the interpretability of AI systems that rely on rule-based ontologies and knowledge graphs.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Alex Ivliev, Markus Kr\"otzsch, Maximilian Marx ·

    Recovering Explanations from Transformed Rule-Based Ontologies

    arXiv:2608.06399v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Datalog rules are often used to define ontologies over Knowledge Graphs. Rule reasoners routinely optimise such ontologies by rewriting their rules into a form that can be evaluated more efficiently. These transformations preserve…