History, Kinship, Identity, and Technology: Toward Answering the Question “What Is (Family) Genealogy?”

What is Ethics of Science and Technology?

Background: The existence of crises and problems such as non-compliance with standards and professional ethics in the field of engineering and technology, and existence of fraud and misuse in the field of science has resulted in importance of ethics in the science and technology. But the fact is that there is no accurate understanding of the ethics of science and technology, and this field is o...

Toward a Question Answering Roadmap

Growth in government investment, academic research, and commercial question answering (QA) systems is motivating a need for increased planning and coordination. The internationalization of QA research, and the need to move toward a common understanding of resources, tasks and evaluation methods provided motivate a need to facilitate more rapid and efficient progress. This paper characterizes a ...

Toward Question Answering for Simulations

The new research area of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) allows users to question simulated entities whose motivations would otherwise be hidden. Here, we focus on the knowledge representation issues involved in building such systems.

Investigating Embedded Question Reuse in Question Answering

The investigation presented in this paper is a novel method in question answering (QA) that enables a QA system to gain performance through reuse of information in the answer to one question to answer another related question. Our analysis shows that a pair of question in a general open domain QA can have embedding relation through their mentions of noun phrase expressions. We present methods f...

What Is Kinship?