Hello,
Brainstorming, here are some more discussion points about AI-enhanced wiki Q&A
software (e.g., “WikiQuestions” or “WikiAnswers”):
1. 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 a user-correctable paraphrase
handling mechanism to route natural language queries to existing wiki pages or
to invoke one or more AI Q&A systems to obtain answers.
1. As envisioned, a wiki Q&A software platform could interoperate with
multiple local or remote AI Q&A systems simultaneously. Multiple local and
remote AI Q&A systems could be selected, or delegated to, to answer questions
including based on the categories, or the domains, of the questions, e.g.,
morality.
* This means that moral questions and answers could be but one category,
or domain, of many.
* This means that either: (1) an algorithm would be needed for the wiki
platform to determine the categories, or domains, of specific questions, (2)
each AI Q&A system would have to be able to discern whether it could answer a
question based on the categories, or domains, of that question, or (3) users
would have to select categories, or domains, when entering their questions.
1. 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.
1. Means of merging explanations and arguments for various answers from
multiple AI Q&A systems into human-readable wiki content should be devised.
1. Mechanisms for pinging appropriate local and remote AI Q&A systems when
users update machine-generated content should be devised.
1. In addition to AI systems answering questions originating from users and
retraining on users’ corrections to their machine-generated wiki content, some
AI systems could also, while working on tasks or reasoning, produce questions
for human users.
I’m going to get started on writing up a proposal for a new sister project
(e.g., “WikiQuestions” or “WikiAnswers”).
I hope that these ideas are of some interest. Any thoughts on these topics?
Best regards,
Adam
From: Adam Sobieski<mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2021 9:15 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] AI Q&A Systems and Wiki Platforms
Hello,
I have an idea for a new Wikimedia sister project [1] that I would like to
share, here, for discussion. This idea occurred when considering a recent AI
project, Delphi [2].
The gist of the idea is a wiki Q&A platform [3] designed for interoperation
with AI Q&A systems. As envisioned, AI research teams could download the wiki
Q&A software platform, install the software, and then develop AI Q&A systems
which interoperate with the scalable wiki platform using the platform’s API.
The gist includes that these AI systems could bootstrap Q&A pages with
automatically-generated answers to questions such that expert users could
subsequently edit these pages, providing input for the continuously improving
AI systems.
In theory, such structured wiki’s could generate XHTML utilizing appropriate
Web schema [4][5] for broader interoperability.
Each structured wiki page could contain multiple answers and each answer could
be supported by explanation and argumentation.
Each structured wiki page, a question and answer(s), could also have an
accompanying discussion page or threaded forum [6] as well.
Scenarios of specific interest to me include moral question answering systems
like Delphi [2].
The indicated approach would seemingly require some paraphrase detection
components to detect paraphrases of questions.
I hope that these ideas are of some interest. Any thoughts on these topics?
Best regards,
Adam Sobieski
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_new_projects
[2] https://delphi.allenai.org/ (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.07574.pdf)
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q%26A_software
[4] https://schema.org/Question
[5] https://schema.org/Answer
[6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Structured_Discussions
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