Afterword: Knowledge and Answers

Afterword

For two topics treated in this monograph, there are important recent articles or reports that could not be included in the body of the monograph, primarily because of their recency. The editors take this opportunity to mention some of them here, with apologies for selection bias. The problem posed by the incomplete and possibly inaccurate assessment of the radiation exposure of liquidators is t...

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Francisco J. Varela was a student and collaborator of Humberto R. Maturana. Their pioneering collaboration on Autopoiesis and Cognition reestablished “processes of living” as the principle topic of biological explorations. This topic had dropped out of the discourse of biology after the work of Jacob von Uexküll. Autopoiesis brought a new framework to biology. I say framework because it was not...

Afterword

Afterword: Laughter and Temperament

Unspecified Posted at the Zurich Open Repository and Archive, University of Zurich ZORA URL: http://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-77682 Accepted Version Originally published at: Ruch, Willibald (1997). Afterword: Laughter and Temperament. In: Ekman, Paul; Rosenberg, E L. What the face reveals : basic and applied studies of spontaneous expression using the facial action coding system (FACS). New York: Oxf...

Exposing Extracted Knowledge Supporting Answers ∗

As more systems rely on knowledge bases built from automatic and semi-automatic methods, it is becoming more important to provide solutions that not only answer questions but also provide information describing how the answers were obtained. We aim to make answers more useful that rely on the combination of knowledge bases, some of which may have been built as the result of extraction processes...