Towards Understandable Explanations for Document Analysis Systems

Author

Forcher, Björn ; Agne, Stefan ; Dengel, Andreas ; Gillmann, Michael ; Roth-Berghofer, Thomas

Author_Institution

Knowledge Manage. Deptartment, German Res. Center for Artificial Intell. DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany

fYear

2012

fDate

27-29 March 2012

Firstpage

6

Lastpage

10

Abstract

smartFIX is a product portfolio for knowledge based extraction of data from any document format. The system automatically determines the document type and extracts all relevant data for the respective business process. Data that is unreliably recognized is forwarded to a verification workplace for manual checking. In general, users have no difficulties to interpret the document data and wonder why the system needs additional input. For that reason, we implemented an explanation component that is used to justify extraction results, thus, increasing confidence of users. The component is using a semantic log making it possible to provide understandable explanations. We illustrate the benefits of that kind of technology in contrast to the current smartFIX Log Viewer by means of a preliminary user experiment.

Keywords

document handling; knowledge acquisition; user interfaces; data extraction; document analysis system; document format; explanation component; knowledge based extraction; preliminary user experiment; semantic log; smartFIX Log Viewer; smartFIX product portfolio; understandable explanation; user confidence; verification workplace; Bars; Databases; Expert systems; Ontologies; Semantics; Text analysis; DAS; explanation; information extraction semantic technology; understandability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Document Analysis Systems (DAS), 2012 10th IAPR International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Gold Cost, QLD

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0868-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DAS.2012.92

Filename

6195325