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most citedOn Relating 'Why?' and 'Why Not?' Explanations

11 citations · 28 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.AI2021★ 5 cited

Transport-based Counterfactual Models

Lucas de Lara, Alberto González-Sanz, Nicholas Asher +2

Counterfactual frameworks have grown popular in machine learning for both explaining algorithmic decisions but also defining individual notions of fairness, more intuitive than typ…

cs.AI2021★ 9 cited

Efficient Explanations for Knowledge Compilation Languages

Xuanxiang Huang, Yacine Izza, Alexey Ignatiev +3

Knowledge compilation (KC) languages find a growing number of practical uses, including in Constraint Programming (CP) and in Machine Learning (ML). In most applications, one natur…

cs.LG2020★ 11 cited

On Relating 'Why?' and 'Why Not?' Explanations

Alexey Ignatiev, Nina Narodytska, Nicholas Asher +1

Explanations of Machine Learning (ML) models often address a 'Why?' question. Such explanations can be related with selecting feature-value pairs which are sufficient for the predi…

cs.CL2018

Bias in Semantic and Discourse Interpretation

Nicholas Asher, Soumya Paul

In this paper, we show how game-theoretic work on conversation combined with a theory of discourse structure provides a framework for studying interpretive bias. Interpretive bias…

cs.GT2013★ 1 cited

Infinite games with uncertain moves

Nicholas Asher, Soumya Paul

We study infinite two-player games where one of the players is unsure about the set of moves available to the other player. In particular, the set of moves of the other player is a…

cs.CL2010★ 2 cited

Testing SDRT's Right Frontier

Stergos Afantenos, Nicholas Asher

The Right Frontier Constraint (RFC), as a constraint on the attachment of new constituents to an existing discourse structure, has important implications for the interpretation of…