The Role of Textualisation and Argumentation in Understanding the Machine Learning Process

Kacper Sokol, Peter Flach

Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Doctoral Consortium. Pages 5211-5212.

https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2017/765

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Abstract

Understanding data, models and predictions is important for machine learning applications. Due to the limitations of our spatial perception and intuition, analysing high-dimensional data is inherently difficult. Furthermore, black-box models achieving high predictive accuracy are widely used, yet the logic behind their predictions is often opaque. Use of textualisation -- a natural language narrative of selected phenomena -- can tackle these shortcomings. When extended with argumentation theory we could envisage machine learning models and predictions arguing persuasively for their choices.

Keywords

  • Artificial Intelligence: artificial intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence: machine learning
  • Artificial Intelligence: natural language processing
  • Artificial Intelligence: knowledge representation
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