Argument attribution explanations in quantitative bipolar argumentation frameworks
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Author(s)
Yin, Xiang
Potyka, Nico
Toni, Francesca
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Argumentative explainable AI has been advocated by several in recent years, with an increasing interest on explaining the reasoning outcomes of Argumentation Frameworks (AFs). While there is a considerable body of research on qualitatively explaining the reasoning outcomes of AFs with debates/disputes/dialogues in the spirit of extension-based semantics, explaining the quantitative reasoning outcomes of AFs under gradual semantics has not received much attention, despite widespread use in applications. In this paper, we contribute to filling this gap by proposing a novel theory of Argument Attribution Explanations (AAEs) by incorporating the spirit of feature attribution from machine learning in the context of Quantitative Bipolar Argumentation Frameworks (QBAFs): whereas feature attribution is used to determine the influence of features towards outputs of machine learning models, AAEs are used to determine the influence of arguments towards topic arguments of interest. We study desirable properties of AAEs, including some new ones and some partially adapted from the literature to our setting. To demonstrate the applicability of our AAEs in practice, we conclude by carrying out two case studies in the scenarios of fake news detection and movie recommender systems.
Date Issued
2023-09-28
Date Acceptance
2023-07-15
Citation
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 2023, 372, pp.2898-2905
ISBN
978-1-64368-436-9
ISSN
0922-6389
Publisher
IOS Press
Start Page
2898
End Page
2905
Journal / Book Title
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Volume
372
Copyright Statement
© 2023 The Authors. This article is published online with Open Access by IOS Press and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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Source
26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence ECAI 2023
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2023-09-30
Finish Date
2023-10-04
Coverage Spatial
Kraków, Poland