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Using artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically test a game remains a critical challenge for the development of richer and more complex game worlds and for the advancement of AI at large. One of the most promising methods for achieving…

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An important task for a recommender system to provide interpretable explanations for the user. This is important for the credibility of the system. Current interpretable recommender systems tend to focus on certain features known to be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Sixun Ouyang , Aonghus Lawlor , Felipe Costa , Peter Dolog

Evaluating AI systems that interact with humans requires understanding their behavior across diverse user populations, but collecting representative human data is often expensive or infeasible, particularly for novel technologies or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Davide Paglieri , Logan Cross , William A. Cunningham , Joel Z. Leibo , Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets

Recent years have seen a boom in interest in machine learning systems that can provide a human-understandable rationale for their predictions or decisions. However, exactly what kinds of explanation are truly human-interpretable remains…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Menaka Narayanan , Emily Chen , Jeffrey He , Been Kim , Sam Gershman , Finale Doshi-Velez

Data availability is a bottleneck during early stages of development of new capabilities for intelligent artificial agents. We investigate the use of text generation techniques to augment the training data of a popular commercial artificial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Nikolaos Malandrakis , Minmin Shen , Anuj Goyal , Shuyang Gao , Abhishek Sethi , Angeliki Metallinou

Providing plausible responses to why questions is a challenging but critical goal for language based human-machine interaction. Explanations are challenging in that they require many different forms of abstract knowledge and reasoning.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Allen Nie , Erin D. Bennett , Noah D. Goodman

Social AI agents interact with members of a community, thereby changing the behavior of the community. For example, in online learning, an AI social assistant may connect learners and thereby enhance social interaction. These social AI…

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Neural language model-based approaches to automated story generation suffer from two important limitations. First, language model-based story generators generally do not work toward a given goal or ending. Second, they often lose coherence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Louis Castricato , Spencer Frazier , Jonathan Balloch , Nitya Tarakad , Mark Riedl

Generating explanation to explain its behavior is an essential capability for a robotic teammate. Explanations help human partners better understand the situation and maintain trust of their teammates. Prior work on robot generating…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Yu Zhang , Mehrdad Zakershahrak

The concept of rationality is central to the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Whether we are seeking to simulate human reasoning, or trying to achieve bounded optimality, our goal is generally to make artificial agents as rational as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Olivia Macmillan-Scott , Mirco Musolesi

New systems employ Machine Learning to sift through large knowledge sources, creating flexible Large Language Models. These models discern context and predict sequential information in various communication forms. Generative AI, leveraging…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Ted Selker

User simulation is an emerging interdisciplinary topic with multiple critical applications in the era of Generative AI. It involves creating an intelligent agent that mimics the actions of a human user interacting with an AI system,…

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High quality arguments are essential elements for human reasoning and decision-making processes. However, effective argument construction is a challenging task for both human and machines. In this work, we study a novel task on…

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Prior work on generating explanations in a planning and decision-making context has focused on providing the rationale behind an AI agent's decision making. While these methods provide the right explanations from the explainer's…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Mehrdad Zakershahrak , Shashank Rao Marpally , Akshay Sharma , Ze Gong , Yu Zhang

Models for affective text generation have shown a remarkable progress, but they commonly rely only on basic emotion theories or valance/arousal values as conditions. This is appropriate when the goal is to create explicit emotion statements…

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Reinforcement learning techniques successfully generate convincing agent behaviors, but it is still difficult to tailor the behavior to align with a user's specific preferences. What is missing is a communication method for the system to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Christian Arzate Cruz , Takeo Igarashi

Automated story generation is the problem of automatically selecting a sequence of events, actions, or words that can be told as a story. We seek to develop a system that can generate stories by learning everything it needs to know from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Lara J. Martin , Prithviraj Ammanabrolu , Xinyu Wang , William Hancock , Shruti Singh , Brent Harrison , Mark O. Riedl

Towards human-like dialogue systems, current emotional dialogue approaches jointly model emotion and semantics with a unified neural network. This strategy tends to generate safe responses due to the mutual restriction between emotion and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Yushan Qian , Bo Wang , Shangzhao Ma , Wu Bin , Shuo Zhang , Dongming Zhao , Kun Huang , Yuexian Hou

Work on "learning with rationales" shows that humans providing explanations to a machine learning system can improve the system's predictive accuracy. However, this work has not been connected to work in "explainable AI" which concerns…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Julia Strout , Ye Zhang , Raymond J. Mooney

With the growing capabilities of intelligent systems, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and robots in everyday life is increasing. However, when interacting in such complex human environments, the failure of intelligent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Devleena Das , Siddhartha Banerjee , Sonia Chernova