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tExplain: Information Extraction with Explanations

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Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR 2024)

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We present a narrative understanding tool that takes as an input a narrative in natural English language that contains both sentences describing actions as well as questions and outputs answers to those questions together with natural language explanations justifying those answers. We evaluate our tool on the several tasks of Facebook’s bAbI challenge where it achieves 100% accuracy.

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  1. University of A Coruna, A Coruña, Spain

    Pedro Cabalar, Adrian Dorsey, Jorge Fandinno, Yuliya Lierler, Brais Muñiz & Joel Sare

  2. University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, USA

    Pedro Cabalar, Adrian Dorsey, Jorge Fandinno, Yuliya Lierler, Brais Muñiz & Joel Sare

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Cabalar, P., Dorsey, A., Fandinno, J., Lierler, Y., Muñiz, B., Sare, J. (2025). tExplain: Information Extraction with Explanations. In: Dodaro, C., Gupta, G., Martinez, M.V. (eds) Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning. LPNMR 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 15245. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-74209-5_4

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