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Using Insights from Psychology and Language to Improve How People Reason with Description Logics

Authors : Paul Warren, Paul Mulholland, Trevor Collins, Enrico Motta

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Abstract

Inspired by insights from theories of human reasoning and language, we propose additions to the Manchester OWL Syntax to improve comprehensibility. These additions cover: functional and inverse functional properties, negated conjunction, the definition of exceptions, and existential and universal restrictions. By means of an empirical study, we demonstrate the effectiveness of a number of these additions, in particular: the use of solely to clarify the uniqueness of the object in a functional property; the replacement of and with intersection in conjunction, which was particularly beneficial in negated conjunction; the use of except as a substitute for and not; and the replacement of some with including and only with noneOrOnly, which helped in certain situations to clarify the nature of these restrictions.

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conj: A and B; excl disj: not A and B, A and not B; incl disj: A and B, not A and B, A and not B.
 
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An alternative would have been to use a non-parametric test. Hopkins et al. (2009) note that a transformation to reduce skewness followed by a parametric test provides greater statistical power at small sample sizes than does a non-parametric test.
 
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Metadata
Title
Using Insights from Psychology and Language to Improve How People Reason with Description Logics
Authors
Paul Warren
Paul Mulholland
Trevor Collins
Enrico Motta
Copyright Year
2017
Book
The Semantic Web

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-58067-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-58068-5

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58068-5_29