Generating Explanations of Action Failures in a Cognitive Robotic Architecture

Ravenna Thielstrom, Antonio Roque, Meia Chita-Tegmark, Matthias Scheutz


Abstract
We describe an approach to generating explanations about why robot actions fail, focusing on the considerations of robots that are run by cognitive robotic architectures. We define a set of Failure Types and Explanation Templates, motivating them by the needs and constraints of cognitive architectures that use action scripts and interpretable belief states, and describe content realization and surface realization in this context. We then describe an evaluation that can be extended to further study the effects of varying the explanation templates.
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2020.nl4xai-1.14
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2nd Workshop on Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence
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November
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2020
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Dublin, Ireland
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Jose M. Alonso, Alejandro Catala
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NL4XAI
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SIGGEN
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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67–72
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Ravenna Thielstrom, Antonio Roque, Meia Chita-Tegmark, and Matthias Scheutz. 2020. Generating Explanations of Action Failures in a Cognitive Robotic Architecture. In 2nd Workshop on Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence, pages 67–72, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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