Explainable Natural Language Processing

Anders Søgaard is a father of three and a published poet, as well as a Full Professor in Computer Science the University of Copenhagen. He is currently funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, the Lundbeck Foundation, and the Innovation Fund Denmark; before that, he held an ERC Starting Grant and a Google Focused Research Award. He has won best paper awards at NAACL, EACL, CoNLL, etc. He previously wrote Semi-Supervised Learning and Domain Adaptation in NLP (Morgan & Claypool, 2013) and Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings (Morgan & Claypool, 2019), the latter with co-authors Ivan Vulic, Sebastian Ruder, and Manaal Faruqui.

• Acknowledgments.- Introduction.- A Framework for Explainable NLP.- Local-Backward Explanations.- Global-Backward Explanations.- Local-Forward Explanations of Intermediate Representations.- Global-Forward Explanations of Intermediate Representations.- Local-Forward Explanations of Continuous Output.- Global-Forward Explanations of Continuous Output.- Local-Forward Explanations of Discrete Output.- Global-Forward Explanations of Discrete Output.- Evaluating Explanations.- Perspectives.- Resources.- Bibliography.- Author's Biography .