On the Explanation of Similarity for Developing and Deploying CBR Systems
This work addresses the problem of making similarity measures more interpretable for domain experts in developing CBR systems, but it appears incremental as it focuses on enhancing existing processes rather than introducing a new paradigm.
The paper tackles the challenge of defining similarity measures in Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) systems by opening the knowledge engineering process for similarity modeling, resulting in improved explainability and transparency during development, particularly for e-Health applications.
During the early stages of developing Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) systems the definition of similarity measures is challenging since this task requires transferring implicit knowledge of domain experts into knowledge representations. While an entire CBR system is very explanatory, the similarity measure determines the ranking but do not necessarily show which features contribute to high (or low) rankings. In this paper we present our work on opening the knowledge engineering process for similarity modelling. This work present is a result of an interdisciplinary research collaboration between AI and public health researchers developing e-Health applications. During this work explainability and transparency of the development process is crucial to allow in-depth quality assurance of the by the domain experts.