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Scientific articles are long text documents organized into sections, each describing aspects of the research. Analyzing scientific production has become progressively challenging due to the increase in the number of available articles.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Gustavo Bartz Guedes , Ana Estela Antunes da Silva

The paper introduces a novel framework based on category theory to enhance the explainability of artificial intelligence systems, particularly focusing on word embeddings. Key topics include the construction of categories $\mathcal{L}_T$…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Ares Fabregat-Hernández , Javier Palanca , Vicent Botti

There has been a recent resurgence in the area of explainable artificial intelligence as researchers and practitioners seek to make their algorithms more understandable. Much of this research is focused on explicitly explaining decisions or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Tim Miller

Automated decision-making systems are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, which creates an immediate need for their interpretability and explainability. However, it remains unclear whether users know what insights an explanation offers and,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Yueqing Xuan , Edward Small , Kacper Sokol , Danula Hettiachchi , Mark Sanderson

A growing effort in NLP aims to build datasets of human explanations. However, the term explanation encompasses a broad range of notions, each with different properties and ramifications. Our goal is to provide an overview of diverse types…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Chenhao Tan

Document subject classification is essential for structuring (digital) libraries and allowing readers to search within a specific field. Currently, the classification is typically made by human domain experts. Semi-supervised Machine…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Philipp Scharpf , Moritz Schubotz , Bela Gipp

Interest in the field of Explainable Artificial Intelligence has been growing for decades and has accelerated recently. As Artificial Intelligence models have become more complex, and often more opaque, with the incorporation of complex…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Shruthi Chari , Daniel M. Gruen , Oshani Seneviratne , Deborah L. McGuinness

The spread of media bias is a significant concern as political discourse shapes beliefs and opinions. Addressing this challenge computationally requires improved methods for interpreting news. While large language models (LLMs) can scale…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Qile Wang , Prerana Khatiwada , Avinash Chouhan , Ashrey Mahesh , Joy Mwaria , Duy Duc Tran , Kenneth E. Barner , Matthew Louis Mauriello

This thesis explores the generation of local explanations for already deployed machine learning models, aiming to identify optimal conditions for producing meaningful explanations considering both data and user requirements. The primary…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-19 julien Delaunay

With the growing pervasiveness of artificial intelligence, the ability to explain the inferences made by machine learning models has become increasingly important. Numerous techniques for model explainability have been proposed, with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Nicola Rossberg , Bennett Kleinberg , Barry O'Sullivan , Luca Longo , Andrea Visentin

In the context of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), limited research has identified role-specific explanation needs. This study investigates the explanation needs of data scientists, who are responsible for training, testing,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Helmut Degen , Ziran Min , Parinitha Nagaraja

Explaining sophisticated machine-learning based systems is an important issue at the foundations of AI. Recent efforts have shown various methods for providing explanations. These approaches can be broadly divided into two schools: those…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Nicholas Asher , Soumya Paul , Chris Russell

Despite the rapid progress in multihop question-answering (QA), models still have trouble explaining why an answer is correct, with limited explanation training data available to learn from. To address this, we introduce three explanation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Harsh Jhamtani , Peter Clark

Given a machine learning (ML) model and a prediction, explanations can be defined as sets of features which are sufficient for the prediction. In some applications, and besides asking for an explanation, it is also critical to understand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Xuanxiang Huang , Martin C. Cooper , Antonio Morgado , Jordi Planes , Joao Marques-Silva

We present a dataset of 833k paragraphs extracted from CC-BY licensed scientific publications, classified into four categories: acknowledgments, data mentions, software/code mentions, and clinical trial mentions. The paragraphs are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Eric Jeangirard

Explanation in machine learning and related fields such as artificial intelligence aims at making machine learning models and their decisions understandable to humans. Existing work suggests that personalizing explanations might help to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Johanes Schneider , Joshua Handali

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Isaac Lage , Emily Chen , Jeffrey He , Menaka Narayanan , Been Kim , Sam Gershman , Finale Doshi-Velez

This paper addresses a significant gap in explainable AI: the necessity of interpreting epistemic uncertainty in model explanations. Although current methods mainly focus on explaining predictions, with some including uncertainty, they fail…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Helena Löfström , Tuwe Löfström , Johan Hallberg Szabadvary

Large language models are increasingly capable of generating fluent-appearing text with relatively little task-specific supervision. But can these models accurately explain classification decisions? We consider the task of generating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Sarah Wiegreffe , Jack Hessel , Swabha Swayamdipta , Mark Riedl , Yejin Choi

Interpretability has become an important topic of research as more machine learning (ML) models are deployed and widely used to make important decisions. Most of the current explanation methods provide explanations through feature…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-09 Amirata Ghorbani , James Wexler , James Zou , Been Kim