"Context,
Goals, Experiences, and Explanations"
David
B. Leake, Indiana University, USA
The importance of explanation is widely recognized, but different
communities may focus on very different aspects of explanation and
tools for addressing them. This talk provides a historical
sampling of the roles of explanation in case-based reasoning (CBR),
presenting relationships of explanation to the CBR cognitive model,
results on how case-based reasoning can support explanation, and new
directions on needs and methods for explanation within case-based
reasoning systems and to support CBR applications. This
examination demonstrates the importance of context, goals, and
experience in explanation. In so doing, it highlights key
questions---and perhaps potential answers---relevant to a range of
explanation problems in computer and human-computer systems.
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