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Automatic question generation to determine roles during a crisis

Authors:
Marten Teitsma
Jacobijn A.C. Sandberg
Marinus Maris
Bob J. Wielinga

Keywords: Crisis-Management, Ontology, Human-Centered Sensing, Theory of Strongly Semantic Information, Situation Theory

Abstract:
Traditional information systems for crisis response and management are centralized systems with a rigid hierarchical structure. Here we propose a decentralized system, which allows citizens to play a significant role as information source and/or as helpers during the initial stages of a crisis. In our approach different roles are assigned to citizens. To be able to designate the different roles automatically our system needs to generate appropriate questions. On the basis of information theory and a restricted role ontology we formalized the process of question generation. Three consecutive experiments were conducted with human users to evaluate to what extent the questioning process resulted in appropriate role determination. The result showed that the mental model of human users does not always comply with the formal model underpinning the questions generation process.

Pages: 37 to 42

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: October 23, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2326-9294

ISBN: 978-1-61208-163-2

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from October 23, 2011 to October 29, 2011