Projects
Explanation in Explainable Artificial Intelligence Ghent University
After AI models are trained and deployed, it is often hard to understand their results. The blooming field of explainable AI (XAI) seeks to make AI models understandable by using several statistical, mathematical, and computational techniques.These techniques lead to explanations of the model’s outputs. Philosophical analyses of XAI until now have focussed on problems other than explanation, despite it being a central concept in philosophy of ...
Mixed-initiative explanation methods: towards the next generation of interactive machine learning steered with rich feedback of non-expert users KU Leuven
Mixed-initiative explanation methods: towards the next generation of interactive machine learning steered with rich feedback of non-expert users KU Leuven
The overall objective of this project is to enable non-expert users to interact with ML models as a basis to improve the accuracy of such models and to increase user trust. As individual users have different needs, the long-term goal of our research is to personalise mixed-initiative explanation interfaces to the specific needs, characteristics, and context of each user.
Towards the next generation of interactive and adaptive explanation methods KU Leuven
Despite the long history of work on explanations in the Machine Learning, AI and Recommender Systems literature, current efforts face unprecedented difficulties: contemporary models are more complex and less interpretable than ever. As such models are used in many day-to-day applications, justifying their decisions for non-expert users with little or no technical knowledge will only become more crucial. Although several explanation methods ...
Heterogoneic cell division provides a molecular explanation for the origin of gestational trophoblastic diseases in bovine and human Ghent University
Early embryogenesis is burdened by chromosome abnormalities. Bovine mimics human early embryonic development and hence, is a good model to study chromosomal instability. During our studies, we discovered that cleavage stage embryos can contain both androgenetic (paternal only) and gynogenetic (maternal only) haploid cell lines as well as normal diploid and triploid cells. Those embryos must result from zygotes segregating entire parental ...
The Origins of Early Anglophone Philosophy of Science: Debating Scientific Explanation Ghent University
After the introduction of Carl Hempel’s Covering Law model in 1948, scientific explanation became
a central topic of philosophical attention in early anglophone philosophy of science in the 1950s
and 1960s. During this period, philosophy of science became an academic subdiscipline, with its
own societies, journals and graduate programs. Though many contemporary philosophers of
science have distanced themselves from the ...
Explanation in the Engineering Sciences Ghent University
The aim of the project is to develop an account of explanation in engineering science. In contrast to explanation in the physical sciences, life sciences, and social sciences, very little philosophical work has been done on this subject. Our specific aims are (i) to describe and elucidate the explanatory practice of engineering scientists, (ii) to develop an account of the value and adequacy of different types of explanations in ...
Managing Uncertainty in Visual Analytics: Designing Explanation Interfaces for Recommender Systems and Prediction Models KU Leuven
Visual Analytics is the science that studies the visual representation of information to enable interactive analysis of large and/or complex sets of information. These representations provide a guide to the thinking process of the decision-maker to facilitate correct interpretation of otherwise intractable data. The nature of the data, however, can heavily affect the effectiveness of guidance. Missing measurements, heterogeneous sources and ...
Education of lung epithelial cells as an alternative explanation for the protective effect of infectious pressure on development of allergy and asthma. Ghent University
There is an epidemic of allergy and asthma in the Western industrialized world, with up to 30% of children showing reactivity to common inhaled and food allergens. The reason for the increase in these Th2-associated diseases is currently unclear. The hygiene hypothesis of allergy states that lifestyle changes leading to less "infectious pressure" in the first year of life are associated with more allergy. Conversely, growing up on a farm ...