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20242026
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6 papers

cs.AI2026

Rethinking Explanations: Formalizing Contrast in Description Logics

Yasir Mahmood, Arnab Sharma, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo +1

There has been a growing interest in explaining entailments over description logic (DL) knowledge bases. The existing explanation formalisms focus on justifications to explain true…

cs.LO2026

ABox Abduction for Inconsistent Knowledge Bases under Repair Semantics

Anselm Haak, Patrick Koopmann, Yasir Mahmood +1

Given a knowledge base (KB) with a non-entailed fact, the ABox abduction problem asks for possible extensions of the KB that would entail this fact. This problem has many applicati…

cs.AI2025

Can You Tell the Difference? Contrastive Explanations for ABox Entailments

Patrick Koopmann, Yasir Mahmood, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo +1

We introduce the notion of contrastive ABox explanations to answer questions of the type "Why is a an instance of C, but b is not?". While there are various approaches for explaini…

cs.AI2025

Neural Reasoning for Robust Instance Retrieval in

Louis Mozart Kamdem Teyou, Luke Friedrichs, N'Dah Jean Kouagou +4

Concept learning exploits background knowledge in the form of description logic axioms to learn explainable classification models from knowledge bases. Despite recent breakthroughs…

cs.LO2025

Why not? Developing ABox Abduction beyond Repairs

Anselm Haak, Patrick Koopmann, Yasir Mahmood +1

Abduction is the task of computing a sufficient extension of a knowledge base (KB) that entails a conclusion not entailed by the original KB. It serves to compute explanations, or…

cs.LO2024

Dung's Argumentation Framework: Unveiling the Expressive Power with Inconsistent Databases

Yasir Mahmood, Markus Hecher, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

The connection between inconsistent databases and Dung's abstract argumentation framework has recently drawn growing interest. Specifically, an inconsistent database, involving cer…