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:adamsobieski@hotmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2021 9:15 AM
To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
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