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Dialogical Models of Explanation.

2007· article· en· W54573516 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicTopic Modeling
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Winnipeg
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDialogical selfEpistemologyPropositionSet (abstract data type)Computer scienceInferenceSimple (philosophy)Task (project management)Closing (real estate)Artificial intelligenceCognitive sciencePsychologyPhilosophyLawPolitical science
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Abstract

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This paper takes on the task of providing a formal system of dialogue CE in which the speech acts of requesting and pro-viding an explanation are represented as dialogue moves in the system. CE has opening rules, locution rules, dialogue rules, success rules and closing rules. The system is meant to be simple and basic, to provide a platform for develop-ing more specialized formal dialogue systems of explanation used for specific purposes. The dialogical theory of explana-tion postulates that an explanation is a dialogue between two parties, one of whom asks a question requesting understand-ing of something which he or she claims not to understand, while the other offers a response that claims to convey the requested understanding to the party asking the question. In the last half of the twentieth century, the dominant model of explanation was the covering law (deductive-nomological) model associated with Hempel (1965), its chief advocate. This model took an explanation to be a de-ductive inference from a set of facts called initial conditions and a set of general rules to a proposition to be explained. It would have been anathema to the analytical philosophers who accepted this model to suggest that an explanation should be thought of as a dialogue between two parties. Times have changed. Much recent work in AI has been based the dialogue model of explanation. Cawsey’s work (1992) on computational generation of explanatory dia-logue used an interactive or dialogue approach, and Moore’s dialogue-based analysis of explanation for advice-giving in expert systems (1995) can also be cited. According to Moore (1995, p. 1) explanation is “an inherently incremental and interactive process ” that requires a dialogue between an ex-planation presenter who is trying to explain something and a questioner who has asked for an explanation. The dialog-ical model of explanation has also been advocated and de-veloped by Schank and his colleagues in cognitive science

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.888
Threshold uncertainty score0.080

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.062
GPT teacher head0.266
Teacher spread0.204 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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Citations35
Published2007
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