{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Tailoring Explanations for the User","authors":[{"name":"Kathleen R. McKeown","slug":"kathleen-r-mckeown","given":"Kathleen R.","family":"McKeown","affiliation":""},{"name":"Myron Wish","slug":"myron-wish","given":"Myron","family":"Wish","affiliation":""},{"name":"Kevin Matthews","slug":"kevin-matthews","given":"Kevin","family":"Matthews","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"In order for an . expert system to provide the most effect1ve explanat10ns, 1t sliould be al:ile to tailor 1ts responses to the concerns of the user. One way in wh1ch explanatJons may be ta!lored Js by point of v1ew . A method JS presented for representing the knowledg.e to support different points oT view in the current domain . In addition, we present a method for determmmg the pomt of v1ew to take by mferring the user's goal withm a brief discourse segment. The advising system 's response to the derived goal depends on the strength of its . belief in the inference for which a method of determmat10n Js also prov1ded This information enables the system to dec1de what answer to give to a q_uestion, which kind of justification is rele vant , and when to provide it . Some details of the current implementation are included.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/157","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/0157.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/157.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/bibtex/157","volume":{"slug":"1985","title":"Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1985","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/","year":1985,"location":"Los Angeles, California, USA","dates":"","editors":"Aravind Joshi","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Natural Language","track":"Natural Language","number":157,"pages":{"first":794,"last":797},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}