Introspective Self-Explanations for Report Generation in Intelligence Analysis

Report generation is an integral part of many analytical tasks such as intelligence analysis. Thus, an important issue in developing cognitive assistants for analytical tasks is how the cognitive assistant may help a human analyst in generating reports. In this paper, we first describe the task of report generation in intelligence analysis. Then, we describe a scheme for enabling a cognitive assistant to generate self-explanations. The proposed scheme uses introspection over the knowledge, reasoning, and conclusions of the cognitive assistant. Finally, we analyze the introspective scheme for generating self-explanations from the perspective of report generation.