MAIR: Framework for mining relationships between research articles, strategies, and regulations in the field of explainable artificial intelligence

TL;DR

This paper presents MAIR, a novel framework that uses NLP and institutional analysis to explore the relationships between research articles, strategies, and regulations in explainable AI, aiming to enhance cooperation between researchers and policymakers.

Contribution

Introduces MAIR, a new framework combining NLP and institutional grammar to analyze interactions between AI research and regulations, addressing a gap in understanding their dynamics.

Findings

Identifies key interactions between research papers and policies.

Reveals similarities and differences across stages of institutionalization.

Demonstrates the framework's utility in fostering cooperation between researchers and policymakers.

Abstract

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.