Publications

2024

CoXQL: A Dataset for Explanation Request Parsing in Conversational XAI Systems

Qianli Wang, Tatiana Anikina, Nils Feldhus, Simon Ostermann, and Sebastian Möller
EMNLP 2024 Findings
ACL Anthology | arXiv | GitHub

Democratizing Advanced Attribution Analyses for Generative Language Models with the Inseq Toolkit

Gabriele Sarti, Nils Feldhus, Jirui Qi, Malvina Nissim, and Arianna Bisazza
xAI 2024 Late-Breaking Work & Demos
CEUR-WS

Conversational XAI and Explanation Dialogues

Nils Feldhus
YRRSDS @ SIGDIAL 2024
ACL Anthology

Cross-Refine: Improving Natural Language Explanation Generation by Learning in Tandem

Qianli Wang, Tatiana Anikina, Nils Feldhus, Simon Ostermann, Sebastian Möller, and Vera Schmitt
In submission
arXiv

German Voter Personas can Radicalize LLM Chatbots via the Echo Chamber Effect

Maximilian Bleick, Nils Feldhus, Aljoscha Burchardt, and Sebastian Möller
INLG 2024
ACL Anthology

Towards Modeling and Evaluating Instructional Explanations in Teacher-Student Dialogues

Nils Feldhus, Aliki Anagnostopoulou, Qianli Wang, Milad Alshomary, Henning Wachsmuth, Daniel Sonntag, and Sebastian Möller
ACM GoodIT 2024 (Work in Progress track)
ACM Digital Library | OpenReview (previous version submitted to ARR)

Free-text Rationale Generation under Readability Level Control

Yi-Sheng Hsu, Nils Feldhus, and Sherzod Hakimov
In submission
arXiv

The Value of Text for Multimodal Decision Support using XAI

Ajay Madhavan Ravichandran, Julianna Grune, Nils Feldhus, Roland Roller, Aljoscha Burchardt, and Sebastian Möller
BioNLP @ ACL 2024
ACL Anthology

QoEXplainer: Mediating Explainable Quality of Experience Models with Large Language Models

Nikolas Wehner, Nils Feldhus*, Michael Seufert, Sebastian Möller, and Tobias Hoßfeld
16th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX 2024) Demos / ACM IMX 2024
IEEE Xplore
* joint first authorship

LLMCheckup: Conversational Examination of Large Language Models via Interpretability Tools

Qianli Wang, Tatiana Anikina, Nils Feldhus, Josef van Genabith, Leonhard Hennig, and Sebastian Möller
NAACL 2024 Workshop on Bridging Human-Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing (HCI+NLP)
ACL Anthology | arXiv | GitHub

The Role of Explainability in Collaborative Human-AI Disinformation Detection

Vera Schmitt, Luis Felipe Villa-Arenas, Nils Feldhus, Joachim Meyer, Robert P. Spang, and Sebastian Möller
FAccT 2024
ACM Digital Library

2023

InterroLang: Exploring NLP Models and Datasets through Dialogue-based Explanations

Nils Feldhus, Qianli Wang, Tatiana Anikina, Sahil Chopra, Cennet Oguz, and Sebastian Möller
EMNLP 2023 Findings & BlackboxNLP Workshop
ACL Anthology | arXiv | GitHub

Saliency Map Verbalization: Comparing Feature Importance Representations from Model-free and Instruction-based Methods

Nils Feldhus, Leonhard Hennig, Maximilian Dustin Nasert, Christopher Ebert, Robert Schwarzenberg, and Sebastian Möller
ACL 2023 Workshop on Natural Language Reasoning and Structured Explanations (NLRSE)
ACL Anthology | arXiv | GitHub

Inseq: An Interpretability Toolkit for Sequence Generation Models

Gabriele Sarti, Nils Feldhus, Ludwig Sickert, Oskar van der Wal, Malvina Nissim, and Arianna Bisazza
ACL 2023 System Demonstrations
ACL Anthology | arXiv | GitHub | Project page

Pre-trained Language Models for the Automatic Evaluation of Customer Chatbot Dialogs

Mika Rebensburg, Stefan Hillmann, and Nils Feldhus
ESSV 2023
Proceedings

Adapters for Resource-Efficient Deployment of NLU Models

Jan Nehring, Akhyar Ahmed, and Nils Feldhus
ESSV 2023
Proceedings | GitHub

Fighting Disinformation - Overview of Recent AI-based Collaborative Human-Computer Interaction for Intelligent Decision Support Systems

Tim Polzehl, Vera Schmitt, Nils Feldhus, Joachim Meyer, and Sebastian Möller
HUCAPP 2023
SciTePress

2022

XAINES: Explaining AI with Narratives

Mareike Hartmann, Han Du, Nils Feldhus, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová, and Daniel Sonntag
KI - Künstliche Intelligenz
Journal article on Springer

Mediators: Conversational Agents Explaining NLP Model Behavior

Nils Feldhus, Ajay Madhavan Ravichandran, and Sebastian Möller
IJCAI-ECAI 2022 Workshop on XAI
arXiv | Slides

Towards Personality-aware Chatbots

Daniel Fernau, Stefan Hillmann, Nils Feldhus, Tim Polzehl, and Sebastian Möller
SIGDIAL 2022
ACL Anthology | Video (Live presentation)

Towards Automated Dialog Personalization using MBTI Personality Indicators

Daniel Fernau, Stefan Hillmann, Nils Feldhus, and Tim Polzehl
INTERSPEECH 2022
ISCA Proceedings

A Comparison of Feature Extraction Models for Medical Image Captioning

Sebastian Germer, Hristina Uzunova, Jan Ehrhardt, Nils Feldhus, Philippe Thomas, and Heinz Handels
GMDS-TMF 2022
PDF

An Annotated Corpus of Textual Explanations for Clinical Decision Support

Roland Roller, Aljoscha Burchardt, Nils Feldhus, Laura Seiffe, Klemens Budde, Simon Ronicke, and Bilgin Osmanodja
LREC 2022
ACL Anthology

What to explain when explaining is difficult? An interdisciplinary primer on XAI and meaningful information in automated decision-making

Hadi Asghari, Nadine Birner, Aljoscha Burchardt, Daniela Dicks, Judith Fassbinder, Nils Feldhus, Freya Hewett, Vincent Hofmann, Matthias C. Kettemann, Wolfgang Schulz, Judith Simon, Jakob Stolberg-Larsen, and Theresa Züger
Project report (published 2022-03-22)
Full report

2021

Thermostat: A Large Collection of NLP Model Explanations and Analysis Tools

Nils Feldhus, Robert Schwarzenberg, and Sebastian Möller
2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP): System Demonstrations
ACL Anthology | arXiv | GitHub | Video

Efficient Explanations from Empirical Explainers

Robert Schwarzenberg, Nils Feldhus, and Sebastian Möller
4th workshop on analyzing and interpreting neural networks for NLP (collocated with EMNLP 2021)
BlackboxNLP 2021 proceedings | arXiv | GitHub

Combining Open Domain Question Answering with a Task-Oriented Dialog System

Jan Nehring, Nils Feldhus, Harleen Kaur, and Akhyar Ahmed
1st Workshop on Document-grounded Dialogue and Conversational Question Answering (DialDoc 2021)
ACL Anthology

European Language Grid: A Joint Platform for the European Language Technology Community

Georg Rehm et al.
16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL): System Demonstrations
EACL 2021 Proceedings

2020

Evaluating German Transformer Language Models with Syntactic Agreement Tests

Karolina Zaczynska, Nils Feldhus*, Robert Schwarzenberg, Aleksandra Gabryszak, and Sebastian Möller
5th Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText) & 16th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS)
SwissText/KONVENS 2020 Proceedings | arXiv | GitHub
* joint first authorship

Towards an Interoperable Ecosystem of AI and LT Platforms: A Roadmap for the Implementation of Different Levels of Interoperability

Georg Rehm et al.
1st International Workshop on Language Technology Platforms (c/w LREC 2020)
IWLTP 2020 Proceedings