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In this paper, we aim to bridge this gap by proposing a novel method, which personalizes rule-based explanations to the needs of different users based on their expertise and background knowledge, formalized as a set of weighting functions over a knowledge graph. While we assume that user preferences are provided as a weighting function, our focus is on generating explanations tailored to the user\u2019s background knowledge. The method transforms rule-based interpretable models into personalized explanations considering user preferences in terms of the granularity of knowledge. 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