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Interpretability provides a means for humans to verify aspects of machine learning (ML) models and empower human+ML teaming in situations where the task cannot be fully automated. Different contexts require explanations with different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Zixi Chen , Varshini Subhash , Marton Havasi , Weiwei Pan , Finale Doshi-Velez

There is general consensus that it is important for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning systems to be explainable and/or interpretable. However, there is no general consensus over what is meant by 'explainable' and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Alun Preece , Dan Harborne , Dave Braines , Richard Tomsett , Supriyo Chakraborty

People sometimes change their opinions when they discuss things with other people. Researchers can use mathematics to study opinion changes in simplifications of real-life situations. These simplified settings, which are examples of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-08-07 Grace J. Li , Jiajie Luo , Kaiyan Peng , Mason A. Porter

A myriad of explainability methods have been proposed in recent years, but there is little consensus on how to evaluate them. While automatic metrics allow for quick benchmarking, it isn't clear how such metrics reflect human interaction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Ana Valeria Gonzalez , Anna Rogers , Anders Søgaard

Large language models (LLMs) show promise for supporting clinicians in diagnostic communication by generating explanations and guidance for patients. Yet their ability to produce outputs that are both understandable and empathetic remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Jianzhou Yao , Shunchang Liu , Guillaume Drui , Rikard Pettersson , Alessandro Blasimme , Sara Kijewski

In empathetic conversations, individuals express their empathy towards others. Previous work has mainly focused on generating empathetic responses by utilizing the speaker's emotion. Besides, external commonsense knowledge has been applied…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Hua Cai , Xuli Shen , Qing Xu , Weilin Shen , Xiaomei Wang , Weifeng Ge , Xiaoqing Zheng , Xiangyang Xue

Empathy is widely used in many disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, psychology, health care. Ability to empathise with software end-users seems to be a vital skill software developers should possess. This is because engineering…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Hashini Gunatilake , John Grundy , Ingo Mueller , Rashina Hoda

This document presents endeavors to represent emotion in a computational cognitive architecture. The first part introduces research organizing with two axes of emotional affect: pleasantness and arousal. Following this basic of emotional…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Junya Morita

As recommender systems become increasingly sophisticated and complex, they often suffer from lack of fairness and transparency. Providing robust and unbiased explanations for recommendations has been drawing more and more attention as it…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Bingbing Wen , Yunhe Feng , Yongfeng Zhang , Chirag Shah

In the science of emotion, it is widely assumed that folk emotion categories form a biological and psychological typology, and studies are routinely designed and analyzed to identify emotion-specific patterns. This approach shapes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Christiana Westlin , Ashutosh Singh , Deniz Erdogmus , Georgios Stratis , Lisa Feldman Barrett

Explainable AI, in the context of autonomous systems, like self-driving cars, has drawn broad interests from researchers. Recent studies have found that providing explanations for autonomous vehicles' actions has many benefits (e.g.,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Yuan Shen , Shanduojiao Jiang , Yanlin Chen , Katie Driggs Campbell

Explanation constitutes an archetypal feature of human rationality, underpinning learning and generalisation, and representing one of the media supporting scientific discovery and communication. Due to the importance of explanations in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Marco Valentino , André Freitas

While previous sentiment analysis research has concentrated on the interpretation of explicitly stated opinions and attitudes, this work initiates the computational study of a type of opinion implicature (i.e., opinion-oriented inference)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-04-28 Janyce Wiebe , Lingjia Deng

When explaining the decisions of deep neural networks, simple stories are tempting but dangerous. Especially in computer vision, the most popular explanation approaches give a false sense of comprehension to its users and provide an overly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Matthias Kirchler , Martin Graf , Marius Kloft , Christoph Lippert

This study explores the relationship between informational support seeking questions, responses, and helpfulness ratings in online health communities. We created a labeled data set of question-response pairs and developed multimodal machine…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Mohsen Jozani , Jason A. Williams , Ahmed Aleroud , Sarbottam Bhagat

Given the growing ubiquity of emojis in language, there is a need for methods and resources that shed light on their meaning and communicative role. One conspicuous aspect of emojis is their use to convey affect in ways that may otherwise…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Abu Shoeb , Gerard de Melo

Large language models have become increasingly common, used by millions of people worldwide in both professional and personal contexts. As these models continue to advance, they are frequently serving as virtual assistants and companions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Victoria Williams , Benjamin Rosman

Empathetic conversational models have been shown to improve user satisfaction and task outcomes in numerous domains. In Psychology, persona has been shown to be highly correlated to personality, which in turn influences empathy. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Peixiang Zhong , Chen Zhang , Hao Wang , Yong Liu , Chunyan Miao

The increasingly widespread application of AI models motivates increased demand for explanations from a variety of stakeholders. However, this demand is ambiguous because there are many types of 'explanation' with different evaluative…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Yiheng Yao

In human-AI interactions, explanation is widely seen as necessary for enabling trust in AI systems. We argue that trust, however, may be a pre-requisite because explanation is sometimes impossible. We derive this result from a formalization…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Nghi Truong , Phanish Puranam , Ilia Testlin