Generating cooperative question-responses by means of erotetic search scenarios

• Authors: Łupkowski Paweł , Leszczyńska-Jasion Dorota
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The concept of cooperative question-responses as an extension of cooperative behaviours used by interfaces for databases and information systems is proposed. A procedure to generate question-responses based on question dependency and erotetic search scenarios is presented. The procedure is implemented in Prolog.

Keywords

EN

question-response; dependent question; databases; cooperative answering; inferential erotetic logic; erotetic search scenarios

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń)
• Journal: Logic and Logical Philosophy
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 61–78

Dates

published

2015-03-01

online

2014-08-12

Contributors

author

Łupkowski Paweł

• Department of Logic and Cognitive Science, Institute of Psychology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

author

Leszczyńska-Jasion Dorota

• Department of Logic and Cognitive Science, Institute of Psychology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12775/LLP.2014.017