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_id: '55337'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: As AI is more and more pervasive in everyday life, humans have an increasing
    demand to understand its behavior and decisions. Most research on explainable
    AI builds on the premise that there is one ideal explanation to be found. In fact,
    however, everyday explanations are co-constructed in a dialogue between the person
    explaining (the explainer) and the specific person being explained to (the explainee).
    In this paper, we introduce a first corpus of dialogical explanations to enable
    NLP research on how humans explain as well as on how AI can learn to imitate this
    process. The corpus consists of 65 transcribed English dialogues from the Wired
    video series 5 Levels, explaining 13 topics to five explainees of different proficiency.
    All 1550 dialogue turns have been manually labeled by five independent professionals
    for the topic discussed as well as for the dialogue act and the explanation move
    performed. We analyze linguistic patterns of explainers and explainees, and we
    explore differences across proficiency levels. BERT-based baseline results indicate
    that sequence information helps predicting topics, acts, and moves effectively.
author:
- first_name: Henning
  full_name: Wachsmuth, Henning
  id: '3900'
  last_name: Wachsmuth
- first_name: Milad
  full_name: Alshomary, Milad
  id: '73059'
  last_name: Alshomary
citation:
  ama: 'Wachsmuth H, Alshomary M. “Mama Always Had a Way of Explaining Things So I
    Could Understand”: A Dialogue Corpus for Learning to Construct Explanations. In:
    Calzolari N, Huang C-R, Kim H, et al., eds. <i>Proceedings of the 29th International
    Conference on Computational Linguistics</i>. International Committee on Computational
    Linguistics; 2022:344–354.'
  apa: 'Wachsmuth, H., &#38; Alshomary, M. (2022). “Mama Always Had a Way of Explaining
    Things So I Could Understand”: A Dialogue Corpus for Learning to Construct Explanations.
    In N. Calzolari, C.-R. Huang, H. Kim, J. Pustejovsky, L. Wanner, K.-S. Choi, P.-M.
    Ryu, H.-H. Chen, L. Donatelli, H. Ji, S. Kurohashi, P. Paggio, N. Xue, S. Kim,
    Y. Hahm, Z. He, T. K. Lee, E. Santus, F. Bond, &#38; S.-H. Na (Eds.), <i>Proceedings
    of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics</i> (pp. 344–354).
    International Committee on Computational Linguistics.'
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Wachsmuth_Alshomary_2022, place={Gyeongju, Republic of Korea},
    title={“Mama Always Had a Way of Explaining Things So I Could Understand”: A Dialogue
    Corpus for Learning to Construct Explanations}, booktitle={Proceedings of the
    29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics}, publisher={International
    Committee on Computational Linguistics}, author={Wachsmuth, Henning and Alshomary,
    Milad}, editor={Calzolari, Nicoletta and Huang, Chu-Ren and Kim, Hansaem and Pustejovsky,
    James and Wanner, Leo and Choi, Key-Sun and Ryu, Pum-Mo and Chen, Hsin-Hsi and
    Donatelli, Lucia and Ji, Heng and et al.}, year={2022}, pages={344–354} }'
  chicago: 'Wachsmuth, Henning, and Milad Alshomary. “‘Mama Always Had a Way of Explaining
    Things So I Could Understand’: A Dialogue Corpus for Learning to Construct Explanations.”
    In <i>Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics</i>,
    edited by Nicoletta Calzolari, Chu-Ren Huang, Hansaem Kim, James Pustejovsky,
    Leo Wanner, Key-Sun Choi, Pum-Mo Ryu, et al., 344–354. Gyeongju, Republic of Korea:
    International Committee on Computational Linguistics, 2022.'
  ieee: 'H. Wachsmuth and M. Alshomary, “‘Mama Always Had a Way of Explaining Things
    So I Could Understand’: A Dialogue Corpus for Learning to Construct Explanations,”
    in <i>Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics</i>,
    2022, pp. 344–354.'
  mla: 'Wachsmuth, Henning, and Milad Alshomary. “‘Mama Always Had a Way of Explaining
    Things So I Could Understand’: A Dialogue Corpus for Learning to Construct Explanations.”
    <i>Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics</i>,
    edited by Nicoletta Calzolari et al., International Committee on Computational
    Linguistics, 2022, pp. 344–354.'
  short: 'H. Wachsmuth, M. Alshomary, in: N. Calzolari, C.-R. Huang, H. Kim, J. Pustejovsky,
    L. Wanner, K.-S. Choi, P.-M. Ryu, H.-H. Chen, L. Donatelli, H. Ji, S. Kurohashi,
    P. Paggio, N. Xue, S. Kim, Y. Hahm, Z. He, T.K. Lee, E. Santus, F. Bond, S.-H.
    Na (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics,
    International Committee on Computational Linguistics, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea,
    2022, pp. 344–354.'
date_created: 2024-07-22T13:05:42Z
date_updated: 2024-07-26T13:05:45Z
department:
- _id: '600'
- _id: '660'
editor:
- first_name: Nicoletta
  full_name: Calzolari, Nicoletta
  last_name: Calzolari
- first_name: Chu-Ren
  full_name: Huang, Chu-Ren
  last_name: Huang
- first_name: Hansaem
  full_name: Kim, Hansaem
  last_name: Kim
- first_name: James
  full_name: Pustejovsky, James
  last_name: Pustejovsky
- first_name: Leo
  full_name: Wanner, Leo
  last_name: Wanner
- first_name: Key-Sun
  full_name: Choi, Key-Sun
  last_name: Choi
- first_name: Pum-Mo
  full_name: Ryu, Pum-Mo
  last_name: Ryu
- first_name: Hsin-Hsi
  full_name: Chen, Hsin-Hsi
  last_name: Chen
- first_name: Lucia
  full_name: Donatelli, Lucia
  last_name: Donatelli
- first_name: Heng
  full_name: Ji, Heng
  last_name: Ji
- first_name: Sadao
  full_name: Kurohashi, Sadao
  last_name: Kurohashi
- first_name: Patrizia
  full_name: Paggio, Patrizia
  last_name: Paggio
- first_name: Nianwen
  full_name: Xue, Nianwen
  last_name: Xue
- first_name: Seokhwan
  full_name: Kim, Seokhwan
  last_name: Kim
- first_name: Younggyun
  full_name: Hahm, Younggyun
  last_name: Hahm
- first_name: Zhong
  full_name: He, Zhong
  last_name: He
- first_name: Tony Kyungil
  full_name: Lee, Tony Kyungil
  last_name: Lee
- first_name: Enrico
  full_name: Santus, Enrico
  last_name: Santus
- first_name: Francis
  full_name: Bond, Francis
  last_name: Bond
- first_name: Seung-Hoon
  full_name: Na, Seung-Hoon
  last_name: Na
language:
- iso: eng
page: 344–354
place: Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
project:
- _id: '118'
  name: 'TRR 318 - INF: TRR 318 - Project Area INF'
publication: Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
publisher: International Committee on Computational Linguistics
status: public
title: '“Mama Always Had a Way of Explaining Things So I Could Understand”: A Dialogue
  Corpus for Learning to Construct Explanations'
type: conference
user_id: '3900'
year: '2022'
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