Abstract
Examples are a powerful tool that help us understand complex concepts and connections. In computational linguistics research, looking at example system output and example corpus entries can offer a wealth of insights that are not otherwise accessible. This paper describes the open-source software VULCAN, a visualization tool for strings, graphs, trees, alignments, attention and more. VULCAN’s unique ability to visualize both linguistic structures and properties of neural models make it particularly relevant for neuro-symbolic models. Neuro-symbolic models, combining neural networks with often linguistically grounded structures, offer a promise of increased interpretability in an age of purely neural black-box end-to-end models. VULCAN aims to facilitate this interpretability in practice. VULCAN is designed to be both easy to use and powerful in its capabilities.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.blackboxnlp-1.15
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 6th BlackboxNLP Workshop: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Singapore
- Editors:
- Yonatan Belinkov, Sophie Hao, Jaap Jumelet, Najoung Kim, Arya McCarthy, Hosein Mohebbi
- Venues:
- BlackboxNLP | WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 199–211
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/add_missing_videos/2023.blackboxnlp-1.15/
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2023.blackboxnlp-1.15
- Cite (ACL):
- Jonas Groschwitz. 2023. Introducing VULCAN: A Visualization Tool for Understanding Our Models and Data by Example. In Proceedings of the 6th BlackboxNLP Workshop: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, pages 199–211, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Introducing VULCAN: A Visualization Tool for Understanding Our Models and Data by Example (Groschwitz, BlackboxNLP 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/add_missing_videos/2023.blackboxnlp-1.15.pdf