QA2Explanation: Generating and Evaluating Explanations for Question Answering Systems over Knowledge Graph

Saeedeh Shekarpour, Abhishek Nadgeri, Kuldeep Singh


Abstract
In the era of Big Knowledge Graphs, Question Answering (QA) systems have reached a milestone in their performance and feasibility. However, their applicability, particularly in specific domains such as the biomedical domain, has not gained wide acceptance due to their “black box” nature, which hinders transparency, fairness, and accountability of QA systems. Therefore, users are unable to understand how and why particular questions have been answered, whereas some others fail. To address this challenge, in this paper, we develop an automatic approach for generating explanations during various stages of a pipeline-based QA system. Our approach is a supervised and automatic approach which considers three classes (i.e., success, no answer, and wrong answer) for annotating the output of involved QA components. Upon our prediction, a template explanation is chosen and integrated into the output of the corresponding component. To measure the effectiveness of the approach, we conducted a user survey as to how non-expert users perceive our generated explanations. The results of our study show a significant increase in the four dimensions of the human factor from the Human-computer interaction community.
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2020.intexsempar-1.1
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Proceedings of the First Workshop on Interactive and Executable Semantic Parsing
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November
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2020
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Online
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Ben Bogin, Srinivasan Iyer, Xi Victoria Lin, Dragomir Radev, Alane Suhr, Panupong, Caiming Xiong, Pengcheng Yin, Tao Yu, Rui Zhang, Victor Zhong
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intexsempar
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1–11
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.intexsempar-1.1
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10.18653/v1/2020.intexsempar-1.1
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Saeedeh Shekarpour, Abhishek Nadgeri, and Kuldeep Singh. 2020. QA2Explanation: Generating and Evaluating Explanations for Question Answering Systems over Knowledge Graph. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Interactive and Executable Semantic Parsing, pages 1–11, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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