How to Get Answers to Our Questions: - Finding and Understanding Scientific Literature

Finding Answers to Definition Questions

Current researches on Question Answering concern more complex questions than factoid ones. Since definition questions are investigated by many researches, how to acquire accurate answers still becomes a core problem for definition QA. Although some systems use web knowledge bases to improve answer acquisition, we propose an approach that leverage them in an effective way. After summarizing defi...

Finding Answers to Complex Questions

How to find answers to clinical questions.

Many barriers exist to finding answers to physicians' clinical questions. Lack of time, resources, and computer skills, as well as physicians' environment and attitudes about problem solving, all contribute to unanswered questions. Making use of computer-based information resources can give physicians a framework for answering questions and keeping their practice consistent with the best availa...

noninvasive tests of fibrosis: to get the right answers, we need to ask the right questions

Reducing Our Ignorance: Finding Answers to Certain Epistemic Questions for Software Systems

In previous papers, we asserted that software system safety is primarily concerned with epistemic questions, that is, questions concerning knowledge and the degree of confidence that can be placed in that knowledge. We also enumerated a set of 21 foundational epistemic questions, discussed some of the difficulties that exist in answering these questions adequately today, and speculated briefly ...