Wikianswers
| Wikianswers | |
|---|---|
| Status of the proposal | |
| Status | under discussion |
| Details of the proposal | |
| Project description | An integration of artificial intelligence question-answering systems with a wiki question-and-answer platform. |
| Is it a multilingual wiki? | Many language versions |
| Potential number of languages | Many languages |
| Proposed tagline | A wiki Q&A system. |
| Technical requirements | |
Project description
Introduction
Artificial intelligence question-answering systems can be utilized to seed, or initialize, content on social crowdsourced question-and-answer platforms including the proposed "Wikianswers" project. Artificial intelligence question-answering systems could subsequently retrain using any user-corrected content, resulting in continual improvement.
As envisioned, end-users ask natural-language questions and are either routed to existing wiki pages containing one or more answers, each with explanations and argumentation, or to await the generation of new such content by one or more artificial intelligence question-answering systems.
Each page of content, initially machine-generated and potentially subsequently human-corrected, could be accompanied by a discussion page or a threaded forum area.
Question-answering systems
According to Wikipedia, question-answering systems are "systems that automatically answer questions posed by humans in a natural language."
Question-and-answer platforms
According to Wikipedia, question-and-answer platforms are "online software that attempt to answer questions asked by users." Types of question-and-answer platforms include social, or crowdsourced, platforms where users provide answers to the questions asked by other users.
As envisioned, a wiki question-and-answer platform, "Wikianswers", could interoperate with multiple local or remote artificial intelligence question-answering systems simultaneously. Multiple local and remote question-answering systems could be selected, or delegated to, to answer questions including based on the domains of the questions, e.g., morality.
Explanations and argumentation
Each answer to each question should be able to have supporting explanation and argumentation.
Means of merging explanations and arguments from multiple artificial intelligence question-answering systems into human-readable wiki content should be devised.
Explanations and argumentation for answers could include those which refer to models of decision-making processes, e.g., indicating as a rationale or justification a prioritization of some values or principles over others.
Question paraphrases
Multiple paraphrases of questions should route end-users to the same wiki content presenting them with a set of explained and argued answers.
Implementations of question paraphrase handling could utilize wiki-style redirections from phrasing-specific pages to phrasing-generic pages. In this way, wiki users could correct the outputs of paraphrasing algorithms and these algorithms could, similarly, improve as a result of users’ corrections.
There may be other ways to develop user-correctable paraphrase handling mechanisms.
Encyclopedic question-answering systems
A "Wikianswers" project could answer encyclopedic questions with answers which include inline citations to, quotations from, and hyperlinks to Wikipedia content.
Factoid question-answering systems
A "Wikianswers" project could answer encyclopedic questions with answers which utilize Wikidata content.
Moral question-answering systems
A recent and interesting development is a closed-___domain question-answering system which provides users with answers to questions about morality: https://delphi.allenai.org/ .
Bibliography
Anderson, Michael, and Susan Leigh Anderson, eds. Machine ethics. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Jiang, Liwei, Jena D. Hwang, Chandra Bhagavatula, Ronan Le Bras, Maxwell Forbes, Jon Borchardt, Jenny Liang, Oren Etzioni, Maarten Sap, and Yejin Choi. "Delphi: Towards machine ethics and norms." arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.07574 (2021).
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Alternative names
- Wikiquestions
- Wikiqna
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Domain names
To be determined