Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence

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Deliverables

Press release 3 to media

Press release 2 to media at the NL4XAI Student & Industry Days

Press release 4 to media

Press release 4 to media at the Final Conference.

NL4XAI website and social media profiles available

NL4XAI website and social media profiles available.

Press release 2 to media

Press release 2 to media at the PhD autumn school.

Press release 1 to media

Press release 1 to media at the Initial training meeting.

Technical report on the state of the art in argumentation technology for XAI

Technical report on the state of the art of argumentation technology for XAI manuscript coauthored by ESR7 and ESR8

Technical report on state of the art end-to-end NLG systems

Technical report on state of the art endtoend NLG systems manuscript coauthored by ESR5 and ESR6

Technical report on state of the art XAI models

Technical report on state of the art XAI models review manuscript coauthored by ESRs 14

Technical report on the state of the art in interactive interfaces for XAI

Technical report on the state of the art in interactive interfaces for XAI manuscript coauthored by ESRs 911

Guidelines for explainable NLG evaluation

Guidelines for explainable NLG evaluation.

Comparison of content-based recommender systems versus recommender systems supported by XAI

Comparison of content-based recommender systems versus recommender systems supported by XAI.

Supervisory Board of the network
NL4XAI Final Conference
Recruitment strategy and call

Publications

The Natural Language Pipeline, Neural Text Generation and Explainability

Author(s): J. Faille, A. Gatt and C. Gardent
Published in: 2nd Workshop on Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence, 2020, Page(s) 16-21
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

Detection and Analysis of Moral Values in Argumentation

Author(s): He Zhang, Alina Landowska, Katarzyna Budzynska
Published in: Pre-Proceedings of A workshop affiliated with the 26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Value engineering in AI., 2023
Publisher: ECAI
DOI: 10.13140/rg.2.2.13098.59849

Towards Generating Effective Explanations of Logical Formulas: Challenges and Strategies

Author(s): A. Mayn (ESR4-UU), K. van Deemter
Published in: 2nd Workshop on Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence, 2020
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

Disentangling Web Search on Debated Topics: A User-Centered Exploration

Author(s): Alisa Rieger, Suleiman Kulane, Ujwal Gadiraju, Maria Soledad Pera
Published in: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, Issue 4, 2024, Page(s) 24-35
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3627043.3659559

Explaining Search Result Stances to Opinionated People

Author(s): Zhangyi Wu; Tim Draws; Federico Cau; Francesco Barile; Alisa Rieger; Nava Tintarev
Published in: Communications in Computer and Information Science ISBN: 9783031440663, Issue 2, 2023, ISBN 978-3-031-44067-0
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-44067-0_29

From Potential to Practice: Intellectual Humility During Search on Debated Topics

Author(s): Alisa Rieger, Frank Bredius, Mariët Theune, Maria Soledad Pera
Published in: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2024
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3627508.3638306

Interactive Interventions to Mitigate Cognitive Bias

Author(s): Alisa Rieger
Published in: Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, 2024
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3503252.3534362

Beyond Prediction Similarity: ShapGAP for Evaluating Faithful Surrogate Models in XAI

Author(s): Ettore Mariotti, Adarsa Sivaprasad & Jose Maria Alonso Moral
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Springer Link
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-44064-9_10

Towards Harnessing Natural Language Generation to Explain Black-box Models

Author(s): Ettore Mariotti, Jose M. Alonso, Albert Gatt
Published in: 2nd Workshop on Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence, 2020
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

Habemus a Right to an Explanation: so What? – A Framework on Transparency-Explainability Functionality and Tensions in the EU AI Act

Author(s): Luca Nannini
Published in: Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 2024
Publisher: AAAI/ACM
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14041249

Explaining Bayesian Networks in Natural Language: State of the Art and Challenges

Author(s): Conor Hennessy, Alberto Bugarín, Ehud Reiter
Published in: 2nd Workshop on Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence, 2020
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

This Item Might Reinforce Your Opinion: Obfuscation and Labeling of Search Results to Mitigate Confirmation Bias

Author(s): Alisa Rieger, Tim Draws, Mariët Theune, Nava Tintarev
Published in: Proceedings of the 32st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, 2021, Page(s) 189-199, ISBN 9781450385510
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3465336.3475101

Fairness in Agreement With European Values

Author(s): Alejandra Bringas Colmenarejo, Luca Nannini, Alisa Rieger, Kristen M. Scott, Xuan Zhao, Gourab K Patro, Gjergji Kasneci, Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda
Published in: Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 2023
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3514094.3534158

Explaining data using causal Bayesian networks

Author(s): Jaime Sevilla
Published in: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence, 2020, Page(s) 34-38
Publisher: Assoication for Computational Linguistics

Understanding Cross-modal Interactions in V&L Models that Generate Scene Descriptions

Author(s): Michele Cafagna; Kees van Deemter; Albert Gatt
Published in: Proceedings of the Workshop on Unimodal and Multimodal Induction of Linguistic Structures (UM-IoS), Issue 10, 2022
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2022.umios-1.6

Is Shortest Always Best? The Role of Brevity in Logic-to-Text Generation

Author(s): Eduardo Calò, Jordi Levy, Albert Gatt, Kees Van Deemter
Published in: Proceedings of the 12th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2023), 2023
Publisher: ACL
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.starsem-1.17

Towards Healthy Engagement with Online Debates

Author(s): Alisa Rieger, Qurat-Ul-Ain Shaheen, Carles Sierra, Mariet Theune, Nava Tintarev
Published in: Adjunct Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, 2023
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3511047.3537692

Prometheus: Harnessing Fuzzy Logic and Natural Language for Human-centric Explainable Artificial Intelligence

Author(s): Ettore Mariotti, Jose M. Alonso-Moral, Albert Gatt
Published in: XIX Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA)-ESTYLF-CEDI 2021, 2021
Publisher: XIX Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA)-ESTYLF-CEDI 2021

Explainability in AI Policies: A Critical Review of Communications, Reports, Regulations, and Standards in the EU, US, and UK

Author(s): Luca Nannini, Agathe Balayn, Adam Leon Smith
Published in: 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 2023, Page(s) 1198-1212
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3593013.3594074

Toward Natural Language Mitigation Strategies for Cognitive Biases in Recommender Systems

Author(s): Alisa Rieger, Mariet Theune, Nava Tintarev
Published in: NL4XAI 20202nd Workshop on Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence, 2020
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

Explaining Bayesian Networks in Natural Language using Factor Arguments. Evaluation in the medical domain.

Author(s): Jaime Sevilla; Nikolay Babakov; Ehud Reiter; Alberto Bugarín.
Published in: EXPLIMED - First Workshop on Explainable Artificial Intelligence for the medical domain (EXPLIMED), 2024
Publisher: ECAI 2024
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14040523

Linguistically Communicating Uncertainty in Patient-Facing Risk Prediction Models

Author(s): Sivaprasad, Adarsa; Reiter, Ehud
Published in: Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Uncertainty-Aware NLP (UncertaiNLP 2024), 2024, Page(s) 127-132
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2401.17511

A Framework for Analyzing Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics: A Use-case in Banking Services

Author(s): Ettore Mariotti, Jose M. Alonso, Roberto Confalonieri
Published in: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE), 2021, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-6654-4407-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/fuzz45933.2021.9494481

Entity-Based Semantic Adequacy for Data-to-Text Generation

Author(s): Juliette Faille, Albert Gatt and Claire Gardent
Published in: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021, 2021, Page(s) 1530-1540
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

Enhancing and Evaluating the Grammatical Framework Approach to Logic-to-Text Generation

Author(s): Eduardo Calò, Elze van der Werf, Albert Gatt, Kees van Deemter
Published in: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM), 2022
Publisher: ACL
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2022.gem-1.13

General Boolean Formula Minimization with QBF Solvers

Author(s): Calò, Eduardo; Levy, Jordi
Published in: CCIA 2023, Issue 12, 2023
Publisher: CCIA
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2303.06643

HL Dataset: Visually-grounded Description of Scenes, Actions and Rationales

Author(s): Michele Cafagna; Kees van Deemter; Albert Gatt
Published in: Proceedings of the 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference, Issue 12, 2023, Page(s) 293–312
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.inlg-main.21

Trust in a Human-Computer Collaborative Task With or Without Lexical Alignment

Author(s): Sumit Srivastava, Mariët Theune, Alejandro Catala, Chris Reed
Published in: Adjunct Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, Issue 28 June 2024, 2024, Page(s) 189 - 194, ISBN 979-8-4007-0466-6
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3631700.3664868

Exploiting Peer Trust and Semantic Similarities in the Assignment Assessment Process

Author(s): Jairo Alejandro Lefebre Lobaina, Carles Sierra, Athina Georgara,
Published in: 2024
Publisher: SPRINGER
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14066237

A Confusion Matrix for Evaluating Feature Attribution Methods

Author(s): Anna Arias-Duart; Ettore Mariotti; Dario Garcia-Gasulla; Jose Maria Alonso-Moral
Published in: 2023 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/cvprw59228.2023.00380

Position: Machine Learning-powered Assessments of the EU Digital Services Act Aid Quantify Policy Impacts on Online Harms

Author(s): Luca Nannini, Michele Maggini Joshua, Davide Bassi, Eleonora Bonel
Published in: Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 2024
Publisher: ICML 2024
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14041316

The Role of Lexical Alignment in Human Understanding of Explanations by Conversational Agents

Author(s): Sumit Srivastava, Mariët Theune, Alejandro Catala
Published in: Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Issue 27 Mar 2023, 2024, Page(s) 423 - 435, ISBN 979-8-4007-0106-1
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3581641.3584086

Exploring Lexical Alignment in a Price Bargain Chatbot

Author(s): Zhenqi Zhao, Mariët Theune, Sumit Srivastava, Daniel Braun
Published in: ACM Conversational User Interfaces 2024, Issue 08 July 2024, 2024, Page(s) Article No.: 40, Pages 1 - 7, ISBN 979-8-4007-0511-3
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3640794.3665576

Searching for the Whole Truth: Harnessing the Power of Intellectual Humility to Boost Better Search on Debated Topics

Author(s): Alisa Rieger; Frank Bredius; Nava Tintarev; Maria Soledad Pera
Published in: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Issue 11, 2023, ISBN 9781450394222
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3544549.3585693

„Mann“ is to “Donna” as「国王」is to « Reine » Adapting the Analogy Task for Multilingual and Contextual Embeddings

Author(s): Timothee Mickus, Eduardo Calò, Léo Jacqmin, Denis Paperno, Mathieu Constant
Published in: Proceedings of the 12th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2023), 2023
Publisher: ACL
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.starsem-1.25

Argumentation Theoretical Frameworks for Explainable Artificial Intelligence

Author(s): M. H. Demollin, Q. Shaheen, K. Budzynska, C. Sierra
Published in: Proc. of 2nd Workshop on Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence (NL4XAI2020), 2020
Publisher: ACL Anthology

Exploring the balance between interpretability and performance with carefully designed constrainable Neural Additive Models

Author(s): Ettore Mariotti; José María Alonso Moral; Albert Gatt
Published in: Information Fusion, Issue Volume 99, November 2023, 101882, 2023, ISSN 1566-2535
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2023.101882

Nudges to Mitigate Confirmation Bias during Web Search on Debated Topics: Support vs. Manipulation

Author(s): Alisa Rieger, Tim Draws, Mariët Theune, Nava Tintarev
Published in: ACM Transactions on the Web, Issue 18, 2024, Page(s) 1-27, ISSN 1559-1131
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinary, Inc.
DOI: 10.1145/3635034

Mapping the landscape of ethical considerations in explainable AI research

Author(s): Luca Nannini, Marta Marchiori Manerba & Isacco Beretta
Published in: Springer Ethics and Information Technology, Issue Volume 26, article number 44, (2024), 2024, ISSN 1572-8439
Publisher: Springer Link
DOI: 10.1007/s10676-024-09773-7

An explanation-oriented inquiry dialogue game for expert collaborative recommendations

Author(s): Qurat-ul-ain Shaheen, Katarzyna Budzynska, Carles Sierra
Published in: Argument & Computation, 2024, Page(s) 1-36, ISSN 1946-2166
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.3233/aac-230010

Beyond phase-in: assessing impacts on disinformation of the EU Digital Services Act

Author(s): Luca Nannini, Eleonora Bonel, Davide Bassi, Michele Joshua Maggini
Published in: AI and Ethics, 2024, ISSN 2730-5953
Publisher: SPRINGER Nature
DOI: 10.1007/s43681-024-00467-w

Interpreting vision and language generative models with semantic visual priors

Author(s): Michele Cafagna; Lina M. Rojas-Barahona; Kees van Deemter; Albert Gatt
Published in: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, Issue 6, 2023, ISSN 2624-8212
Publisher: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
DOI: 10.3389/frai.2023.1220476

Recommender systems under European AI regulations

Author(s): Tommaso Di Noia, Nava Tintarev, Panagiota Fatourou, Markus Schedl
Published in: Communication of the ACM, 2022, ISSN 0001-0782
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinary, Inc.
DOI: 10.1145/3512728

ViLMA: A Zero-Shot Benchmark for Linguistic and Temporal Grounding in Video-Language Models

Author(s): Kesen, Ilker; Pedrotti, Andrea; Dogan, Mustafa; Cafagna, Michele; Acikgoz, Emre Can; Parcalabescu, Letitia; Calixto, Iacer; Frank, Anette; Gatt, Albert; Erdem, Aykut; Erdem, Erkut
Published in: The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR24),, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 2835-8856
Publisher: OpenReview
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2311.07022

TextFocus: Assessing the Faithfulness of Feature Attribution Methods Explanations in Natural Language Processing

Author(s): Ettore Mariotti, Arias Duart Anna, Michele Cafagna, Albert Gatt, Dario Garcia-Gasulla, Maria Jose Alonso
Published in: IEEE Access, 2024, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/access.2024.3408062

Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Moral Foundations in Argumentation

Author(s): Alina Landowska, Katarzyna Budzynska, He Zhang
Published in: Argumentation, Issue 38, 2024, Page(s) 405-434, ISSN 0920-427X
Publisher: D. Reidel Pub. Co.
DOI: 10.1007/s10503-024-09636-x

Measuring and implementing lexical alignment: A systematic literature review

Author(s): Sumit Srivastava, Suzanna Wentzel, Alejandro Catala, Mariët Theune
Published in: Computer Speech & Language, Issue 90, 2025, ISSN 0885-2308
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2024.101731

Striving for Responsible Opinion Formation in Web Search on Debated Topics

Author(s): Rieger, Alisa
Published in: 2024, ISBN 978-94-6366-941-2
Publisher: TU Delft
DOI: 10.4233/uuid:703a1aad-d585-459a-b0b3-ac55d9e98fcd

Explainability in Process Mining: A Framework for Improved Decision-Making

Author(s): Luca Nannini
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC)
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14162735

Visually Grounded Language Generation: Data, Models and Explanations beyond Descriptive Captions

Author(s): Cafagna, Michele
Published in: Issue 12, 2024
Publisher: University of Malta
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14052376

A holistic perspective on designing and evaluating explainable AI models: from white-box additive models to post-hoc explanations for black-box models

Author(s): Ettore Mariotti
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC)

Data Based Natural Language Generation: Evaluation and Explanability

Author(s): Juliette Faille
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Universite de Lorraine
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14231559

Ethos and Pathos in Online Group Discussions: Corpora for Polarisation Issues in Social Media

Author(s): Gajewska, E., Budzynska, K., Konat, B., Koszowy, M., Kiljan, K., Uberna, M., & Zhang, H.
Published in: arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.04889, 2024
Publisher: arxiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2404.04889

Linguistically Analysing Polarisation on Social Media

Author(s): Ewelina Gajewska, Katarzyna Budzynska, Barbara Konat, Marcin Koszowy, Eds.
Published in: The New Ethos Reports, Issue vol .1, 2023, Page(s) 1-32
Publisher: Warsaw University of Technology
DOI: 10.17388/wut.2023.0001.ains

Scalability of Bayesian Network Structure Elicitation with Large Language Models: a Novel Methodology and Comparative Analysis

Author(s): Nikolay Babakov, Ehud Reiter, Alberto Bugarin
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Preprint-ACL Rolling Review
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14046261

Does Explainable AI Have Moral Value?

Author(s): Brand, Joshua L. M.; Nannini, Luca
Published in: Issue 12, 2023
Publisher: Arxiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2311.14687

Responsible Opinion Formation on Debated Topics in Web Search

Author(s): Alisa Rieger, Tim Draws, Nicolas Mattis, David Maxwell, David Elsweiler, Ujwal Gadiraju, Dana McKay, Alessandro Bozzon, Maria Soledad Pera
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Advances in Information Retrieval, 2024, Page(s) 437-465
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-56066-8_32

Examining Lexical Alignment in Human-Agent Conversations with GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 Models

Author(s): Boxuan Wang, Mariët Theune, Sumit Srivastava
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Chatbot Research and Design, Issue 13 March 2024, 2024, Page(s) 94-114, ISBN 978-3-031-54975-5
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-54975-5_6

Evaluation of Human-Understandability of Global Model Explanations Using Decision Tree

Author(s): Adarsa Sivaprasad, Ehud Reiter, Nava Tintarev, Nir Oren
Published in: Communications in Computer and Information Science, Artificial Intelligence. ECAI 2023 International Workshops, 2024, Page(s) 43-65
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-50396-2_3

VALSE: A Task-Independent Benchmark for Vision and Language Models Centered on Linguistic Phenomena

Author(s): Parcalabescu, L; Cafagna, M; Muradjan, L; Frank, A; Calixto, I; Gatt, A; Afd Intelligent Software Systems; Sub Natural Language Processing; Natural Language Processing
Published in: Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'22). Association for Computational Linguistics, Issue 21, 2022, Page(s) 8253–8280
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.567

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