Explainable Natural Language Processing (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783031010521)

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. 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.

Author: Anders Saard
ISBN-10: 3031010523
ISBN-13: 9783031010521
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 09/21/2021
Pages: 107
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.26d