Semantics of the Black-Box: Can knowledge graphs help make deep learning
  systems more interpretable and explainable?
  The recent series of innovations in deep learning (DL) have shown enormous
potential to impact individuals and society, both positively and negatively.
The DL models utilizing massive computing power and enormous datasets have
significantly outperformed prior historical benchmarks on increasingly
difficult, well-defined research tasks across technology domains such as
computer vision, natural language processing, signal processing, and
human-computer interactions. However, the Black-Box nature of DL models and
their over-reliance on massive amounts of data condensed into labels and dense
representations poses challenges for interpretability and explainability of the
system. Furthermore, DLs have not yet been proven in their ability to
effectively utilize relevant domain knowledge and experience critical to human
understanding. This aspect is missing in early data-focused approaches and
necessitated knowledge-infused learning and other strategies to incorporate
computational knowledge. This article demonstrates how knowledge, provided as a
knowledge graph, is incorporated into DL methods using knowledge-infused
learning, which is one of the strategies. We then discuss how this makes a
fundamental difference in the interpretability and explainability of current
approaches, and illustrate it with examples from natural language processing
for healthcare and education applications.
