Explainable artificial intelligence for natural language processing: A survey

Recently, artificial intelligence has gained a lot of momentum and is predicted to surpass expectations across a range of industries. However, explainability is a major challenge due to sub-symbolic techniques like Deep Neural Networks and Ensembles, which were absent during the boom of AI. The practical application of AI in numerous application areas is greatly undermined by this lack of explainability. In order to counter the lack of perception of AI-based systems, Explainable AI (XAI) aims to increase transparency and human comprehension of black-box AI models. Explainable AI (XAI) also strives to promote transparency and human comprehension of black-box AI models. The explainability problem has been approached using a variety of XAI strategies; however, given the complexity of the search space, it may be tricky for ML developers and data scientists to construct XAI applications and choose the optimal XAI algorithms. This paper provides different frameworks, surveys, operations, and explainability methodologies that are currently available for producing reasoning for predictions from Natural Language Processing models in order to aid developers. Additionally, a thorough analysis of current work in explainable NLP and AI is undertaken, providing researchers worldwide with exploration, insight, and idea development opportunities. Finally, the authors highlight gaps in the literature and offer ideas for future research in this area.