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The inference of Explanations is a problem typically studied in the field of Temporal Reasoning by means of approaches related to the reasoning about action and change, which aim usually to infer statements that explain a given change. Most of proposed works are based on inferential logic mechanisms that assume the existence of a general domain knowledge. Unfortunately, the hypothesis to have a domain theory is a requirement not ever guaranteed. In this paper we face the problem from a data-driven perspective where the aim is to discover the events that can plausibly explain the change from a state to another one of the observed domain. Our approach investigates the problem by splitting it in two issues: extraction of temporal states and finding out the events. We applied the approach to the scenarios of Industrial Process Supervision and Medical Diagnosis in order to support the task of domain experts: the experimental results show interesting aspects of our proposal.
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Loglisci, C., Malerba, D. (2008). Discovering Explanations from Longitudinal Data. In: An, A., Matwin, S., Raś, Z.W., Ślęzak, D. (eds) Foundations of Intelligent Systems. ISMIS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4994. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68123-6_22
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