A good answer to (perhaps) not such very good questions

Want a Good Answer? Ask a Good Question First!

Community Question Answering (CQA) websites have become valuable repositories which host a massive volume of human knowledge. To maximize the utility of such knowledge, it is essential to evaluate the quality of an existing question or answer, especially soon after it is posted on the CQA website. In this paper, we study the problem of inferring the quality of questions and answers through a ca...

Good Enough Answer Algorithms

Generating Good Design Questions

QOC is a notation we are developing to represent the Design Rationale for software systems. It represents the design space around the artifact as a network of Questions identifying key design issues, Options providing possible answers to the Questions, and Criteria for assessing and comparing the Options (hence QOC). The design space focus of our approach is aimed at assisting with early design...

2013, a very good year

Pan African Medical Journal. 2014; 17:72 doi:10.11604/pamj.2014.17.72.3918 This article is available online at: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/17/72/full/ © Robert Davis et al. The Pan African Medical Journal ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), ...

Do people ask good questions?

People ask questions in order to efficiently learn about the world. But do people ask good questions? In this work, we designed an intuitive, gamebased task that allowed people to ask natural language questions to resolve their uncertainty. Question quality was measured through Bayesian idealobserver models that considered large spaces of possible game states. During free-form question generati...