MAIR: Framework for mining relationships between research articles, strategies, and regulations in the field of explainable artificial intelligence
This work addresses the need for better cooperation between XAI researchers and AI policymakers by providing a novel tool to analyze the dynamics between regulations and scientific discourse, though it is incremental as it applies existing NLP methods to a new domain.
The authors tackled the problem of understanding interactions between explainable AI research and AI policies by introducing a framework for joint analysis of policy documents and research papers, using NLP and Institutional Grammar to extract metadata and interconnections, enabling analyses of similarities and differences across institutionalization stages.
The growing number of AI applications, also for high-stake decisions, increases the interest in Explainable and Interpretable Machine Learning (XI-ML). This trend can be seen both in the increasing number of regulations and strategies for developing trustworthy AI and the growing number of scientific papers dedicated to this topic. To ensure the sustainable development of AI, it is essential to understand the dynamics of the impact of regulation on research papers as well as the impact of scientific discourse on AI-related policies. This paper introduces a novel framework for joint analysis of AI-related policy documents and eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) research papers. The collected documents are enriched with metadata and interconnections, using various NLP methods combined with a methodology inspired by Institutional Grammar. Based on the information extracted from collected documents, we showcase a series of analyses that help understand interactions, similarities, and differences between documents at different stages of institutionalization. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to use automatic language analysis tools to understand the dynamics between XI-ML methods and regulations. We believe that such a system contributes to better cooperation between XAI researchers and AI policymakers.