An empirical evaluation of argumentation in explaining inconsistency tolerant query answering

Abdelraouf Hecham (1) , Abdallah Arioua (1, 2) , Gem Stapleton (3) , Madalina Croitoru (1)

1 GRAPHIK - Graphs for Inferences on Knowledge
2 UMR IATE - Ingénierie des Agro-polymères et Technologies Émergentes
3 University of Brighton

In this paper we answer empirically the following research question: " Are dialectical explanation methods more effective than one-shot explanation methods for Intersection of Closed Repairs inconsistency tolerant semantics in existential rules knowledge bases? " We ran two experiments with 84 and respectively 38 participants and showed that under certain conditions dialectical approaches are significantly more effective than one-shot explanations.

Domaines: Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]; Base de données [cs.DB]; Système multi-agents [cs.MA]

Abdelraouf Hecham, Abdallah Arioua, Gem Stapleton, Madalina Croitoru. An empirical evaluation of argumentation in explaining inconsistency tolerant query answering. DL: Description Logics, Jul 2017, Montpellier, France. ⟨lirmm-01586155⟩