Demo: making plans scrutable with argumentation and natural language generation

Abstract

Autonomous systems perform tasks without human guidance. Techniques for making autonomous systems scrutable and, hence, more transparent are required in order to support humans working with such systems. The Scrutable Autonomous Systems (SAsSy) demo shows a novel way of combining argumentation and natural language to generate a human understandable explanation dialogue. By interacting with SAsSy users are able to ask why a certain plan was selected for execution, why other alternatives were not selected, also allowing users to modify information in the system.