Explanation interfaces for the semantic web: issues and models

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1. Deborah L. McGuinness, Li Ding, Alyssa Glass, Cynthia Chang, Honglei Zeng, Vasco Furtado. Explanation Interfaces for the Semantic Web: Issues and Models , Proceedings of the 3rd International Semantic Web User Interaction Workshop (SWUI'06), 2006

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@inproceedings { KSL-06-14 ,
  author = "Deborah L. McGuinness, Li Ding, Alyssa Glass, Cynthia Chang, Honglei Zeng, Vasco Furtado", 
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 3rd International Semantic Web User Interaction Workshop (SWUI'06)", 
title = "Explanation Interfaces for the Semantic Web: Issues and Models", 
year = "2006", 
} 

abstract: As the Semantic Web has enabled new application capabilities, newinteraction modes arise and grow in importance. Applications can now notonly retrieve results but also use term meanings to derive new results.Thus, explaining results has become an important new interaction modefor Semantic Web applications. The explanation interaction mode needs toprovide transparency and accountability to application results. We havedeveloped an explanation infrastructure that can provide Semantic Webconsumers (humans and agents) with explanations for results, such aswhere results came from and how they were derived. We have addressedexplanation requirements for applications that range from intelligentanalyst assistants that leverage text analytics to transparent andaccountable reasoning systems that protect user privacy. In this paper,we will describe some Semantic Web user interaction requirements andparadigms that are important for Semantic Web applications.

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• paper: KSL-06-14.pdf (http://swui.semanticweb.org/swui06/papers/McGuinness/McGuinness.doc)
• slides: (http://swui.semanticweb.org/swui06/papers/McGuinness/McGuinness.ppt)