Coming Up with a Good Question Is Not Easy: A Proof

Authors

Joe Lorkowski, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Luc Longpre, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Olga Kosheleva, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Salem Benferhat, Université d'ArtoisFollow

Publication Date

3-2015

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Technical Report: UTEP-CS-15-22

To appear in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2015 and 5th World Conference on Soft Computing, Redmond, Washington, August 17-19, 2015.

Abstract

Ability to ask good questions is an important part of learning skills. Coming up with a good question, a question that can really improve one's understanding of the topic, is not easy. In this paper, we prove -- on the example of probabilistic and fuzzy uncertainty -- that the problem of selecting of a good question is indeed hard.