{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Towards Automating Explanations","authors":[{"name":"Richard E. Cullingford","slug":"richard-e-cullingford","given":"Richard E.","family":"Cullingford","affiliation":""},{"name":"Myron W. Krueger","slug":"myron-w-krueger","given":"Myron W.","family":"Krueger","affiliation":""},{"name":"Mallory Selfridge","slug":"mallory-selfridge","given":"Mallory","family":"Selfridge","affiliation":""},{"name":"Marie A. Bienkowski","slug":"marie-a-bienkowski","given":"Marie A.","family":"Bienkowski","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"This paper discusses an approach to the modelling of the explanation process within the framework of a graphics-based CAD system currently under development, which can describe its own use, including the common ways to make and recover from errors. With a coordinated textual and pictorial display, the system, CADHELP, simulates an expert demonstrating the operation of the graphical features of the CAD tool. It consults a knowledge base of feature scripts, built up using situational script and commonsense algorithmic methods, to explain a feature, generate prompts as the feature is being operated, and to give certain types of \"help\" when a feature is misused. CADHELP provides these services by summarizing the feature script in different ways depending upon what it has told the user previously. The summarization process is based upon a series of \"sketchification\" strategies, which prescribe which parts bf a knowledge structure, a causal chain, or a single concept can be thrown away, since the listener should be able to infer them.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/71","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/0071.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/71.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/bibtex/71","volume":{"slug":"1981","title":"Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1981","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/","year":1981,"location":"Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada","dates":"24-28 August 1981","editors":"Roger C. Schank","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"INFERENCE and REASONING","track":"INFERENCE and REASONING","number":71,"pages":{"first":362,"last":366},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}