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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Generating Justifications in a Spatial Question-Answering Dialogue System for a Blocks World
%A Platonov, Georgiy
%A Kane, Benjamin
%A Schubert, Lenhart
%Y Howes, Christine
%Y Dobnik, Simon
%Y Breitholtz, Ellen
%Y Chatzikyriakidis, Stergios
%S Proceedings of the Reasoning and Interaction Conference (ReInAct 2021)
%D 2021
%8 October
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Gothenburg, Sweden
%F platonov-etal-2021-generating
%X As AI reaches wider adoption, designing systems that are explainable and interpretable becomes a critical necessity. In particular, when it comes to dialogue systems, their reasoning must be transparent and must comply with human intuitions in order for them to be integrated seamlessly into day-to-day collaborative human-machine activities. Here, we describe our ongoing work on a (general purpose) dialogue system equipped with a spatial specialist with explanatory capabilities. We applied this system to a particular task of characterizing spatial configurations of blocks in a simple physical Blocks World (BW) domain using natural locative expressions, as well as generating justifications for the proposed spatial descriptions by indicating the factors that the system used to arrive at a particular conclusion.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2021.reinact-1.8
%P 53-57

Markdown (Informal)

[Generating Justifications in a Spatial Question-Answering Dialogue System for a Blocks World](https://aclanthology.org/2021.reinact-1.8) (Platonov et al., ReInAct 2021)

• Generating Justifications in a Spatial Question-Answering Dialogue System for a Blocks World (Platonov et al., ReInAct 2021)

ACL

• Georgiy Platonov, Benjamin Kane, and Lenhart Schubert. 2021. Generating Justifications in a Spatial Question-Answering Dialogue System for a Blocks World. In Proceedings of the Reasoning and Interaction Conference (ReInAct 2021), pages 53–57, Gothenburg, Sweden. Association for Computational Linguistics.