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Explanatory Debugging: Supporting End-User Debugging of Machine-Learned Programs

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Explanatory Debugging: Supporting End-User Debugging of Machine-Learned Programs
Many machine-learning algorithms learn rules of behavior from individual end users, such as taskoriented desktop organizers and handwriting recognizers. These rules form a “program” that tells the computer what to do when future inputs arrive. Little research has explored how an end user can debug these programs when they make mistakes. We present our progress toward enabling end users to debug these learned programs via a Natural Programming methodology. We began with a formative study exploring how users reason about and correct a text-classification program. From the results, we derived and prototyped a concept based on “explanatory debugging”, then empirically evaluated it. Our results contribute methods for exposing a learned program’s logic to end users and for eliciting user corrections to improve the program’s predictions.
Todd Kulesza, Simone Stumpf, Margaret M. Burnett,
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Type Journal
Year 2010
Where VL
Authors Todd Kulesza, Simone Stumpf, Margaret M. Burnett, Weng-Keen Wong, Yann Riche, Travis Moore, Ian Oberst, Amber Shinsel, Kevin McIntosh
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