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.
    1. 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.
    1. This means that moral questions and answers could be but one category, or domain, of many.
    2. 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
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2021 9:15 AM
To: 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