Natural Language Generation Challenges for Explainable AI

Ehud B. Reiter

Natural Language Generation Challenges for Explainable AI

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Abstract

Good quality explanations of artificial intelligence (XAI) reasoning must be written (and evaluated) for an explanatory purpose, targeted towards their readers, have a good narrative and causal structure, and highlight where uncertainty and data quality affect the AI output. I discuss these challenges from a Natural Language Generation (NLG) perspective, and highlight four specific “NLG for XAI” research challenges.

Original language	English
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 1 Oct 2019
Event	1st Workshop on Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence - Tokyo, Japan Duration: 29 Oct 2019 → 1 Nov 2019

Workshop

Workshop	1st Workshop on Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence
Country	Japan
City	Tokyo
Period	29/10/19 → 1/11/19

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Reiter, E. B. (Accepted/In press). Natural Language Generation Challenges for Explainable AI. Paper presented at 1st Workshop on Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence, Tokyo, Japan.

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