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- @@@STARTPACK(AnswerGar;Help/Consulting System)
- <P>
- This is prototype software for a help/consulting system called Answer
- Garden. Below is a very short description:
- <P>
- Answer Garden allows groups to develop databases of commonly asked
- questions that grow "organically" as new questions arise and are
- answered. It is designed to help in situations (such as field service
- organizations and customer "hot lines") where there is a continuing
- stream of questions, many of which occur over and over, but some of
- which the group has never seen before. The system includes a
- branching network of diagnostic questions, as well as facilities for
- other retrieval engines, to help users find the answers they want. If
- the answer is not present, the system automatically sends the question
- to the appropriate expert, and the expert returns the answer as well
- as inserts it into the branching network. Thus, the information
- database of answers and diagnostic questions grows over time. Experts
- can also modify this network and database in response to users'
- problems.
- <P>
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- You can find a longer description of the purpose of Answer Garden in
- the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Office Information Systems,
- 1990.
- <P>
- @@@UW2DIST(http://www.sco.com/skunkware/uw7/x11/apps/)
- @@@SOURCE(ftp://ftp.sco.com/skunkware/src/x11/apps/)
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- @@@ENDPACK
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