Explanation by status as empty-base explanation

Explanation Chains: Recommendations by Explanation

Given a set of candidate items, Recommendation by Explanation constructs a justification for recommending each item, in the form of what we call an Explanation Chain, and then recommends those candidates that have the best explanations. By unifying recommendation and explanation, this approach enables us to find relevant recommendations with explanations that have a high degree of both fidelity...

Reconstructive Explanation: Explanation as Complex Problem Solving

Exist ing explanation facilities are typical ly far more appropriate for knowledge engineers engaged in system maintenance than for endusers of the system. This is because the explanat ion is l i t t le more than a trace of the detailed problem-solving steps. An alternative approach recognizes that an effective explanat ion often needs to substantial ly reorganize the line of reasoning and br i...

Explanation as Contextual Categorization

Our concern is the explanation generation in a representation based on contextual categorization. We point out that the explicit consideration of the context is necessary for the generation of relevant explanations. We present how the model captures the context necessary for explanation and we report some results compatible with the hypothesis that explanation is based on categorical networks a...

Interpolation As Explanation

Visualisation of Case-Base Reasoning for Explanation

It is not sufficient for Case Based Reasoning systems to merely provide competent solutions. In complex tasks, such as configuration and design, the user requires an explanation of the solution in order to judge its validity and identify any deficiencies. Providing this explanation is not a straightforward task, particularly in systems using k-nearest neighbour retrieval, because much of the kn...