Résumé
14th ESWC 2017, Portoroz, Slovenia It has been argued that it is much easier to convey logical statements using
rules rather than OWL (or description logic (DL)) axioms. Based on recent
theoretical developments on transformations between rules and DLs, we have
developed ROWLTab, a Protege plugin that allows users to enter OWL axioms by
way of rules; the plugin then automatically converts these rules into OWL 2 DL
axioms if possible, and prompts the user in case such a conversion is not
possible without weakening the semantics of the rule. In this paper, we present
ROWLTab, together with a user evaluation of its effectiveness compared to
entering axioms using the standard Protege interface. Our evaluation shows that
modeling with ROWLTab is much quicker than the standard interface, while at the
same time, also less prone to errors for hard modeling tasks.