Explainable Natural Language Processing (Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies, 51) - Softcover

Sgaard, Anders

Softcover

ISBN 10: 163639213X ISBN 13: 9781636392134

Publisher: Morgan & Claypool, 2021

Synopsis

<b>This book presents a taxonomy framework and survey of methods relevant to explaining the decisions and analyzing the inner workings of Natural Language Processing (NLP) models</b>. The book is intended to provide a snapshot of Explainable NLP, though the field continues to rapidly grow. The book is intended to be both readable by first-year M.Sc. students and interesting to an expert audience. The book opens by motivating a focus on providing a consistent taxonomy, pointing out inconsistencies and redundancies in previous taxonomies. It goes on to present (i) a taxonomy or framework for thinking about how approaches to explainable NLP relate to one another; (ii) brief surveys of each of the classes in the taxonomy, with a focus on methods that are relevant for NLP; and (iii) a discussion of the inherent limitations of some classes of methods, as well as how to best evaluate them. Finally, the book closes by providing a list of resources for further research on explainability.

Edition details

• Publisher: Morgan & Claypool
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 163639213X
• ISBN 13: 9781636392134
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 107