Qualifying Causes as Pertinent
- Giovanni Sileno, LTCI - Telecom Paristech - Universite Paris-Saclay, Paris, France
- Jean-Louis Dessalles, Dep. INFRES, Telecom-ParisTech, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Paris, France
AbstractSeveral computational methods have been proposed to evaluate the relevance of an instantiated cause to an observed consequence. The paper reports on an experiment to investigate the adequacy of some of these methods as descriptors of human judgments about causal relevance.