asplain
Asplain is a tool for generating contrastive explanations for answer set programs (ASP).
Installation
To install the project, run
pip install .
For rendering the images with cligraph, Graphviz needs to be installed
following graphviz <https://www.graphviz.org/download/>_ (version 2.50 or
greater).
Documentation
Full documentation is available at docs.potassco.org/asplain.
Usage
Run the following for basic usage information:
asplain -h
For a basic usage example, see the examples/james-bond/README.md file.
LLM Integration
For using the OpenAI API, an API-Key has to be provided in the OPENAI_API_KEY
environment variable. This can be done using a .envfile or directly in the
command line.
Using the .env file
Create a .env file in the root directory of the project and add the following
line
OPENAI_API_KEY=<your-api-key>
Using the command line
OPENAI_API_KEY=<your-api-key> asplain --llm=<model-tag>
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