Call for Papers: The First Workshop on Natural Language Argument-Based Explanations (ArgNLE - https://argnle.github.io/ECAI-ArgNLE/),  October 20th, 2024. Co-located with ECAI 2024 (https://www.ecai2024.eu/). Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Workshop description
Providing high quality explanations for AI predictions based on machine learning is a challenging and complex task. Explainability and Computational Argumentation have usually been approached as separate, independent research topics, which neglects many aspects arising from considering the interdependencies between them. To be effective for human users, explanations are required to be formulated in natural language, possibly in an argumentative fashion. A workshop on exploring Natural language Argument-based Explanations is proposed to investigate this challenging topic, at the crossroad of these different research fields.

The workshop welcomes contributions showing an integrated vision of Explainable AI (XAI), where low level characteristics of the deep learning process are combined with higher level schemas proper of the human argumentation capacity. More precisely, the workshop is intended to discuss research challenges that will allow to advance the state of the art in explainable AI.

Topics of interest
Natural language argument-based explanations
Dialectical, dialogical and conversational explanations
AI methods to support argumentative explainability
User-acceptance and evaluation of argumentation-based explanations
Tools that provide argumentation-based explanations
Use of argument-based explanations for research from the social sciences, digital humanities, and related fields
Real-world applications

Submissions
The workshop solicits the submission of three types of contributions relevant to the workshop topics and suitable to generate discussion:
- Original, unpublished contributions
- Dataset related submissions (presenting a dataset or a corpus related to the workshop topics, that has been or is currently under development. These papers may have already been published in another venue).
- Projects related submissions (presenting funded projects or lines of work within the topics of the workshop, both academic and industrial).

Invited speaker
Professor Francesca Toni, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK. (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/f.toni)

Important Dates
Paper submission: 20 June 2024 (EXTENDED)
Notification of acceptance: 10 July 2024
Camera-ready papers: 31 July 2024
 ArgNLE workshop: 20 October 2024

Submission Instructions
Papers must be written in English, be prepared for double-blind review using the ECAI LaTeX template, and not exceed 7 pages (not including references). The ECAI LaTeX Template can be found at https://ecai2024.eu/download/ecai-template.zip. Papers should be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=argnle2024

Workshop Organizers:
Rodrigo Agerri - HiTZ Center - Ixa, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain
Elena Cabrio - Université Côte d’Azur, Inria, CNRS, I3S, France
Serena Villata - Université Côte d’Azur, Inria, CNRS, I3S, France
Marcin Lewinski - IFILNOVA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Bernardo Magnini - Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Marie-Francine Moens - KU Leuven, Belgium