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We present a novel architecture of a closed domain question answering system that learns to answer why-questions from a small number of example interpretations. We use a probabilistic logic programming framework that can learn probabilities for rules from positive and negative example interpretations. These rules are then used by a meta-interpreter to generate an explanation in the form of a proof for a why-question. The explanation is displayed as an answer to the question together with a probability. In certain contexts, follow-up questions can be asked that conditionally depend on these why-questions and have an effect on the probability of the subsequent answer. The presented approach is a contribution to explainable artificial intelligence that aims to take machine learning out of the black-box.
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Salam, A., Schwitter, R., Orgun, M.A. (2019). Answering Why-Questions Using Probabilistic Logic Programming. In: Liu, J., Bailey, J. (eds) AI 2019: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AI 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11919. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35288-2_13
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