SEARCHING FOR A QUESTION AND AN ANSWER

Are Agents an Answer or a Question?

This short position paper attempts to place current debates about the eecacy and morality of \intel-ligent agents" into a larger historical context that includes the work of Kant, Babbage, and Minsky, among others, and that emphasizes the cyclic nature of such debates. We also try to add some social and ethical reenements to the debate.

information as a question-answer process

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Answer Formulation for Question-Answering

In this paper, we describe our experimentations in answer formulation for question-answering (QA) systems. In the context of QA, answer formulation can serve two purposes: improving answer extraction or improving human-computer interaction (HCI). Each purpose has different precision/recall requirements. We present our experiments for both purposes and argue that formulations of better linguisti...

OCs and VTE: a practical answer to an old question.

an old question In a recent commentary in this journal, Jürgen Dinger1 argued that that “the risk of VTE [venous thromboembolism] attributable to COCs [combined oral contraceptives] is a class effect, primarily dependent on the dose of estrogen” and that the type of progestogen used in the COC probably does not influence this risk. In an editorial in the British Medical Journal that accompanied...

Thrombosis and inflammation: a question in need of an answer.