An empirical evaluation of argumentation in explaining inconsistency tolerant query answering

International audienceIn 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