Interfacing with questions: The unpredictability of live queries in the work of ‘Thousand Questions’

Winnie Soon, Aarhus University @ ICLI2016

If I wrote you a love letter would you write back? (and thousands of other questions)

by Winnie Soon and Helen Pritchard

Mathematical operators Unpredictability of live queries

Query

[a] query language is a well-defined linguistic tool, the expressions of which correspond to requests one might want to make a data base. With each request,

or query, there is associated a response, or answer. (Chandra and Harel 1980, p. 156)

Relational operators

== > < != >= <=

If I wrote you a love letter would you write back?

Winnie Soon, Aarhus University @ siusoon.net