@inproceedings{2710b009c48c4965a9708dd6c7e4c5bf,
title = "Explanation, Irrelevance and Statistical Independence",
abstract = "We evaluate current explanation schemes. These are either insufficiently general, or suffer from other serious drawbacks. We propose a domain-independent explanation system that is based on ignoring irrelevant variables in a probabilistic setting. We then prove important properties of some specific irrelevance-based schemes and discuss how to implement them.",
author = "Shimony, {Solomon E.}",
note = "Funding Information: *This work has been supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grants IST 8416034 and IST 8515005 and Office of Naval Research under grant N00014-79-C-0529. The author is funded by a Corinna Borden Keen Fellowship. Special thanks to Eugene Charniak for helpful suggestions and for reviewing drafts of the paper. Funding Information: This work has been supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grants 1ST 8416034 and 1ST 8515005 and Office of Naval Research under grant N00014-79-C-0529. The author is funded by a Corinna Borden Keen Fellowship. Special thanks to Eugene Charniak for helpful suggestions and for reviewing drafts of the paper. Publisher Copyright: Copyright {\textcopyright} 1991, AAAI (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.; 9th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 1991 ; Conference date: 14-07-1991 Through 19-07-1991",
year = "1991",
month = jan,
day = "1",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the 9th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 1991",
publisher = "AAAI press",
pages = "482--487",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 9th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 1991",
}