When human tutors engage in dialogue, they freely exploit allaspects of the mutually known context, including the previous discourse. Utterances that do not draw on previous disco...
We propose a new framework of explanation-oriented data mining by adding an explanation construction and evaluation phase to the data mining process. While traditional approaches c...
We hypothesize that the variance in volume of high-velocity queries over time can be explained by observing that these queries are formulated in response to events in the world tha...
We describe the design and evaluation of a virtual agent that explains health documents to patients. The prevalence and impact of low health literacy is presented as a motivation f...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Laura M. Pfeifer, Michael K. ...
This paper presents snlp+ebl, the first implementation of explanation based learning techniques for a partial order planner. We describe the basic learning framework of snlp+ebl, ...