Constructing Explainability – Interdisciplinary Framework to Actively Shape Explanations in XAI

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Katharina J. Rohlfing received the Master’s degree in linguistics, philosophy, and media studies from the University of Paderborn in 1997. As a member of the Graduate Program ‘Task Oriented Communication’, she received the Ph.D. degree in linguistics from Bielefeld University in 2002. In 2006, with her interdisciplinary project on the Symbiosis of Language and Action, she became a Dilthey Fellow (VolkswagenStiftung). Since 2015, she is full professor of psycholingustics at the Paderborn University and involved in interdisciplinary and international projects in which she is investigating multimodal social interaction, especially the process of scaffolding the interaction partner, and how robotic partners can achieve it. Being intrigued by different cognitive and interactive demands that communicative tasks imply, her research currently focusses on the process of explaining (see TRR 318 “Constructing Explainability”).

Philipp Cimiano received his diploma in Computer Science from Stuttgart University in 2002. He worked as a doctoral and postdoctoral researcher at the group of Prof. Rudi Studer at the institute für “Angewandte Informatik und formale Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB)” of the University of Karlsruhe. He received his PhD, habilitation and venia legend from the same university. From 2008 to 2009 he was assistant professor for Web Information Systems at Delft University of Technology. Since 2009 he is full professor for computer science at Bielefeld University. He leads the Semantic Computing Group at the Cognitive Interaction Technology Center (CITEC) and is director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Institute (JAII) of the universities of Paderborn and Bielefeld. His fields of research include knowledge representation and engineering, natural language processing, knowledge acquisition and computational argumentation. He is associate editor of the Journal of Web Semantics, the Semantic Web Journal, the Journal of Applied Ontology and the Semantic Computing journal. He is co-founder of two spin-offs: Semalytix GmbH and mercury.ai. …