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dc.contributor.advisorGlassman, Elena
dc.contributor.authorMarrakchi, Wassim
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-19T04:13:26Z
dash.embargo.terms2022-06-23
dc.date.created2021
dc.date.issued2021-06-23
dc.date.submitted2021
dc.identifier.citationMarrakchi, Wassim. 2021. Explaining by Conversing: The Argument for Conversational XAI Systems. Bachelor's thesis, Harvard College.
dc.identifier.other28411045
dc.identifier.urihttps://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37368579*
dc.description.abstractThe interest in chatbots and conversational agents is as old as artificial intelligence (AI) itself. Recently, multiple members of the HCI community including Weld and Bansal (2018) have suggested that conversational explanation systems is the best path forward for explainable human-agent interaction. This recommendation is often presented without its supporting arguments so we embarked on this thesis to shed some light on the call behind conversational explainable AI (XAI) systems. First, we survey the research on the need for explanations from AI systems and on the models' ability to provide them. Second, we provide a set of obstacles in the way of interpreting and making meaning of these explanations and explain these obstacles by drawing from the results of several studies in human-computer interaction, machine learning, cognitive science, and education theory. Finally, we take these obstacles into account to argue for conversational explanation systems and propose a Wizard-of-Oz (WoZ) experiment to test some of our hypotheses.
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.language.isoen
dash.licenseLAA
dc.subjectartificial intelligence
dc.subjectconversational
dc.subjectexplainability
dc.subjectexplainable artificial intelligence
dc.subjectinterpretability
dc.subjectXAI
dc.subjectComputer science
dc.titleExplaining by Conversing: The Argument for Conversational XAI Systems
dc.typeThesis or Dissertation
dash.depositing.authorMarrakchi, Wassim
dash.embargo.until2022-06-23
dc.date.available2021-07-19T04:13:26Z
thesis.degree.date2021
thesis.degree.grantorHarvard College
thesis.degree.levelBachelor's
thesis.degree.levelUndergraduate
thesis.degree.nameAB
dc.contributor.committeeMemberSmith, Mike
dc.type.materialtext
thesis.degree.departmentComputer Science
dash.author.emailwassim.marrakchi@gmail.com


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