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Generating Context-Based Explanations

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Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XIX

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Explanations are vital in knowledge-based systems. One problem, however, is that they ought to describe the domain context, not only the formal part utilised in the reasoning. A solution is thus to reproduce informal knowledge relating and complementing the formal one. The term “context-based explanations” is used for explanations based on formal and informal domain knowledge. An architecture generating such context-based explanations is described and appropriate knowledge to be presented is investigated.

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  1. Department of Information Science, Computer Science Division, Uppsala University, Sweden

    Anneli Edman

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  1. Faculty of Technology, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK

    Max Bramer BSc, PhD, CEng, FBCS, FIEE, FRSA (Technical Programme Chair) (Technical Programme Chair)

  2. Dept of Computer Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK

    Alun Preece (Deputy Technical Programme Chair) (Deputy Technical Programme Chair)

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

    Frans Coenen (Conference Chairman) (Conference Chairman)

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Edman, A. (2003). Generating Context-Based Explanations. In: Bramer, M., Preece, A., Coenen, F. (eds) Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XIX. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0651-7_6

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