Producing Explanations and Justifications of Expert Consulting Programs

Traditional methods for explaining programs provide explanations by converting to English the code of the program or traces of the execution of that code. While such methods can provide adequate explanations of what the program does or did, they typically cannot provide justifications of the code w...

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Main Author: Swartout, William R.
Other Authors: Szolovits, Peter
Published: 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/149532
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description Traditional methods for explaining programs provide explanations by converting to English the code of the program or traces of the execution of that code. While such methods can provide adequate explanations of what the program does or did, they typically cannot provide justifications of the code without resorting to canned-text explanations. That is, such systems cannot tell why what the system is doing is a reasonable thing to be doing.
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spelling mit-1721.1/1495322023-03-30T03:03:19Z Producing Explanations and Justifications of Expert Consulting Programs Swartout, William R. Szolovits, Peter Traditional methods for explaining programs provide explanations by converting to English the code of the program or traces of the execution of that code. While such methods can provide adequate explanations of what the program does or did, they typically cannot provide justifications of the code without resorting to canned-text explanations. That is, such systems cannot tell why what the system is doing is a reasonable thing to be doing. 2023-03-29T15:04:55Z 2023-03-29T15:04:55Z 1981-01 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/149532 7229995 MIT-LCS-TR-251 application/pdf
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