Inference Web: Portable Explanations for the Web

Citation: Deborah L. McGuinness and Paulo Pinheiro da Silva. (2003) Inference Web: Portable Explanations for the Web. In KSL-03-02, January,2003.

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author	Deborah L. McGuinness and Paulo Pinheiro da Silva
title	Inference Web: Portable Explanations for the Web
number	KSL-03-02
institution	Knowledge Systems, AI Laboratory
year	2003
month	January
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abstract	The World Wide Web lacks support for explaining information provenance. When web applications return answers, many users do not know what information sources were used, when they were updated, how reliable the source was, what information was looked up versus derived, and if something was derived, how it was derived. In this paper we introduce the Inference Web (IW) that addresses the problems associated with opaque query answers by providing portable, combinable, and distributed explanations. The explanations include information concerning where answers came from and how they were deduced (or retrieved). The IW solution includes: an extensible web-based registry containing details on information sources and reasoners, a portable proof specification, and an explanation browser.

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Abstract	The World Wide Web lacks support for expla … The World Wide Web lacks support for explaining information provenance. When web applications return answers, many users do not know what information sources were used, when they were updated, how reliable the source was, what information was looked up versus derived, and if something was derived, how it was derived. In this paper we introduce the Inference Web (IW) that addresses the problems associated with opaque query answers by providing portable, combinable, and distributed explanations. The explanations include information concerning where answers came from and how they were deduced (or retrieved). The IW solution includes: an extensible web-based registry containing details on information sources and reasoners, a portable proof specification, and an explanation browser. specification, and an explanation browser.
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Title	Inference Web: Portable Explanations for the Web +
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