Abstract
Learning and training processes are starting to be affected by the diffusion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques and methods. AI can be variously exploited for supporting education, though especially deep learning (DL) models are normally suffering from some degree of opacity and lack of interpretability. Explainable AI (XAI) is aimed at creating a set of new AI techniques able to improve their output or decisions with more transparency and interpretability. In the educational field it could be particularly significant and challenging to understand the reasons behind models outcomes, especially when it comes to suggestions to create, manage or evaluate courses or didactic resources. Deep attentional mechanisms proved to be particularly effective for identifying relevant communities and relationships in any given input network that can be exploited with the aim of improving useful information to interpret the suggested decision process. In this paper we provide the first stages of our ongoing research project, aimed at significantly empowering the recommender system of the educational platform “WhoTeach” by means of explainability, to help teachers or experts to create and manage high-quality courses for personalized learning.
The presented model is actually our first tentative to start to include explainability in the system. As shown, the model has strong potentialities to provide relevant recommendations. Moreover, it allows the possibility to implement effective techniques to completely reach explainability.
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Marconi, L., Aragon, R.A.M., Zoppis, I., Manzoni, S., Mauri, G., Epifania, F. (2021). Explainable Attentional Neural Recommendations for Personalized Social Learning. In: Baldoni, M., Bandini, S. (eds) AIxIA 2020 – Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AIxIA 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12414. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77091-4_5
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