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Recovering Explanations from Transformed Rule-Based Ontologies

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arXiv:2608. 06399v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Datalog rules are often used to define ontologies over Knowledge Graphs.

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Syntactic Simplification of OWL Class Expressions

The paper introduces Class Expression Simplifier (CES), an algorithm that syntactically simplifies OWL class expressions in Description Logics. CES preserves formal semantics by applying rewriting rules to remove redundancies and produce simpler, equivalent expressions, resulting in more compact and human-readable representations. Experiments on two medium-sized ontologies show that CES improves reasoning efficiency and reduces verbosity, and the tool is available as an open-source Python package within OWLAPY.

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