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ArticleFrontiers in artificial intelligence2023

EQRbot: A chatbot delivering EQR argument-based explanations.

Federico Castagna, Alexandra Garton, Peter McBurney, Simon Parsons, Isabel Sassoon, Elizabeth I Sklar

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Article in Frontiers in artificial intelligence, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Federico CastagnaSchool of Computer Science, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom.
Alexandra GartonSchool of Computer Science, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom.
Peter McBurneyDepartment of Informatics, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Simon ParsonsSchool of Computer Science, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom.
Isabel SassoonDepartment of Computer Science, Brunel University London, London, United Kingdom.
Elizabeth I SklarLincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom.

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Abstract

Recent years have witnessed the rise of several new argumentation-based support systems, especially in the healthcare industry. In the medical sector, it is imperative that the exchange of information occurs in a clear and accurate way, and this has to be reflected in any employed virtual systems. Argument Schemes and their critical questions represent well-suited formal tools for modeling such information and exchanges since they provide detailed templates for explanations to be delivered. This paper details the EQR argument scheme and deploys it to generate explanations for patients' treatment advice using a chatbot (EQRbot). The EQR scheme (devised as a pattern of Explanation-Question-Response interactions between agents) comprises multiple premises that can be interrogated to disclose additional data. The resulting explanations, obtained as instances of the employed argumentation reasoning engine and the EQR template, will then feed the conversational agent that will exhaustively convey the requested information and answers to follow-on users' queries as personalized Telegram messages. Comparisons with a previous baseline and existing argumentation-based chatbots illustrate the improvements yielded by EQRbot against similar conversational agents.

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argument schemeschatbotcomputational argumentationdecision-support systemsexplainabilityhealthcareXAI

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PMID37035536
PMCPMC10076765

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