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Explainable Question Answering

Explainable Question Answering (XQA) combines neural reading-comprehension models — typically BERT-family transformers — with interpretability methods such as rationale extraction, attention visualization, LIME, or SHAP to reveal why the model selected a particular answer span. The goal is not just accuracy but trustworthy, auditable reasoning that users and domain experts can inspect and verify.

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Explainable Question Answering (XQA)
Taxonomic method record · ml-model / deep-learning
  • DeYoung, J., Jain, S., Rajani, N. F., Lehman, E., Xiong, C., Socher, R., & Wallace, B. C. (2020). ERASER: A Benchmark to Evaluate Rationalized NLP Models. In Proceedings of ACL 2020, pp. 4443–4458. · DOI 10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.408
  • Rajpurkar, P., Zhang, J., Lopyrev, K., & Liang, P. (2016). SQuAD: 100,000+ Questions for Machine Comprehension of Text. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2016, pp. 2383–2392. · DOI 10.18653/v1/D16-1264
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Taxonomic bucketBERT-based Classificationmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketExplainable BERT-based Classificationmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketExplainable Transformermachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketRoBERTa-based Classificationmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketSentence Embeddingsmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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