{"date_updated":"2025-09-11T10:16:28Z","publication_identifier":{"isbn":["9781643686172"],"issn":["0922-6389","1879-8314"]},"project":[{"name":"TRR 318: Project Area INF","_id":"118"},{"name":"TRR 318; TP A02: Verstehensprozess einer Erklärung beobachten und auswerten","_id":"112"}],"quality_controlled":"1","abstract":[{"text":"Since the emergence of the field of eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), a growing number of researchers have argued that XAI should consider insights from the social sciences in order to adapt explanations to the expectations and needs of human users. This has led to the emergence of a field called Social XAI, which is concerned with understanding how explanations are actively shaped in the interaction between a human user and an AI system. Recognizing this turn in XAI toward making XAI systems more “social” by providing explanations that focus on human information needs and incorporating insights from human–human explanatory interactions, in this paper we provide a formal foundation for Social XAI. We do so by proposing novel ontological accounts of the key terms used in Social XAI based on Basic Formal Ontology (BFO). Specifically, we provide novel ontological accounts for explanandum, explanans, understanding, explanation, explainer, explainee, and context. In doing so, we discuss multifaceted entities in Social XAI (having both continuant and occurrent facets; e.g., explanation) and the relationship between understanding and explanation. Additionally, we propose solutions to seemingly paradoxical views on some terms (e.g., social constructivist vs. individual constructivist perspective on explanandum).","lang":"eng"}],"extern":"1","publication_status":"published","user_id":"76456","publisher":"IOS Press","title":"A BFO-based ontological analysis of entities in Social XAI","page":"255–268","date_created":"2025-09-08T14:00:45Z","type":"book_chapter","conference":{"start_date":"2025-09-08","end_date":"2025-09-12","location":"Catania, Italy","name":"15th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems"},"department":[{"_id":"660"}],"oa":"1","status":"public","author":[{"id":"93424","first_name":"Meisam","full_name":"Booshehri, Meisam","last_name":"Booshehri"},{"id":"76456","first_name":"Hendrik","orcid":"0000-0002-9613-5713","full_name":"Buschmeier, Hendrik","last_name":"Buschmeier"},{"last_name":"Cimiano","full_name":"Cimiano, Philipp","first_name":"Philipp"}],"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"doi":"10.3233/faia250498","main_file_link":[{"url":"https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA250498","open_access":"1"}],"publication":"Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems","citation":{"ama":"Booshehri M, Buschmeier H, Cimiano P. A BFO-based ontological analysis of entities in Social XAI. In: <i>Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems</i>. IOS Press; 2025:255–268. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3233/faia250498\">10.3233/faia250498</a>","short":"M. Booshehri, H. Buschmeier, P. Cimiano, in: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems, IOS Press, 2025, pp. 255–268.","apa":"Booshehri, M., Buschmeier, H., &#38; Cimiano, P. (2025). A BFO-based ontological analysis of entities in Social XAI. In <i>Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems</i> (pp. 255–268). IOS Press. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3233/faia250498\">https://doi.org/10.3233/faia250498</a>","chicago":"Booshehri, Meisam, Hendrik Buschmeier, and Philipp Cimiano. “A BFO-Based Ontological Analysis of Entities in Social XAI.” In <i>Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems</i>, 255–268. IOS Press, 2025. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3233/faia250498\">https://doi.org/10.3233/faia250498</a>.","mla":"Booshehri, Meisam, et al. “A BFO-Based Ontological Analysis of Entities in Social XAI.” <i>Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems</i>, IOS Press, 2025, pp. 255–268, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3233/faia250498\">10.3233/faia250498</a>.","ieee":"M. Booshehri, H. Buschmeier, and P. Cimiano, “A BFO-based ontological analysis of entities in Social XAI,” in <i>Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems</i>, IOS Press, 2025, pp. 255–268.","bibtex":"@inbook{Booshehri_Buschmeier_Cimiano_2025, title={A BFO-based ontological analysis of entities in Social XAI}, DOI={<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3233/faia250498\">10.3233/faia250498</a>}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems}, publisher={IOS Press}, author={Booshehri, Meisam and Buschmeier, Hendrik and Cimiano, Philipp}, year={2025}, pages={255–268} }"},"_id":"61150","year":"2025"}