It Is Like Finding a Polar Bear in the Savannah! Concept-level AI Explanations with Analogical Inference from Commonsense Knowledge

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Abstract

With recent advances in explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), researchers have started to pay attention to concept-level explanations, which explain model predictions with a high level of abstraction. However, such explanations may be difficult to digest for laypeople due to the potential knowledge gap and the concomitant cognitive load. Inspired by recent work, we argue that analogy-based explanations composed of commonsense knowledge may be a potential solution to tackle this issue. In this paper, we propose analogical inference as a bridge to help end-users leverage their commonsense knowledge to better understand the concept-level explanations. Specifically, we design an effective analogy-based explanation generation method and collect 600 analogy-based explanations from 100 crowd workers. Furthermore, we propose a set of structured dimensions for the qualitative assessment of analogy-based explanations and conduct an empirical evaluation of the generated analogies with experts. Our findings reveal significant positive correlations between the qualitative dimensions of analogies and the perceived helpfulness of analogy-based explanations. These insights can inform the design of future methods for the generation of effective analogy-based explanations. We also find that the understanding of commonsense explanations varies with the experience of the recipient user, which points out the need for further work on personalization when leveraging commonsense explanations.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Tenth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing
Editors Jane Hsu, Ming Yin
Pages89-101
Number of pages13
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
EventHCOMP 2022: 10th AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing -
Duration: 6 Nov 202210 Nov 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing
Volume10
ISSN (Print)2769-1330
ISSN (Electronic)2769-1349

Conference

ConferenceHCOMP 2022: 10th AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing
Period6/11/2210/11/22

Bibliographical note

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Keywords

  • Human-centered Explainable AI
  • Analogy
  • Concept-level Explanation
  • Commonsense Knowledge

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