User-aware Explications of Ontology Consequences: Levelling Technicality

Explaining consequences obtained from ontological reasoning is an active research topic. Unlike the computation of the cause of the consequence, the explication of the cause has received little attention so far. However, as many ontologies are designed by experts, the terms and notions used in an explanation need not be known to the user of the ontology-based system, before they can attempt to understand the underlying logical process. In this paper, we address the task of making an explanation of a consequence more comprehensible to a variety of users by re-phrasing it in a vocabulary known to them. Assuming the existence of a dictionary, we attempt to rewrite technical jargon into expressions using a simpler vocabulary. We show that solving this problem requires taking several technical issues into account.