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Request for information
A question is an utterance which serves as a request for information. Questions are sometimes distinguished from interrogatives, which are the grammatical forms, typically used to express them. Rhetorical questions, for instance, are interrogative in form but may not be considered bona fide questions, as they are not expected to be answered. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: QuestionA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Toward expert-level medical question answering with large language modelsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The schoolmasters assistantThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial PerspectiveCited 12,736 times
- Go sideways: InterrogativeA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Yes/no questionA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A worded or expressed sentence, phrase, or only a word on its own, which asks for information, a reply, or a response; an interrogative.
Noun A subject or topic for consideration or investigation.
Noun A doubt or challenge about the truth, accuracy, or validity of a matter.
Noun A proposal to a meeting as a topic for deliberation.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
To Parcel or Not to Parcel: Exploring the Question, Weighing the Merits
The answer is 17 years, what is the question: understanding time lags in translational research
Les métamorphoses de la question sociale
The well-built clinical question: a key to evidence-based decisions
Question of Parity Conservation in Weak Interactions
Mortality prediction with a single general self-rated health question
GRADE guidelines: 2. Framing the question and deciding on important outcomes
🆕 Influential since 2022
Toward expert-level medical question answering with large language models
Is high self-esteem beneficial? Revisiting a classic question.
Improving the Domain Adaptation of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Models for Open Domain Question Answering
An Overview of Soil and Soilless Cultivation Techniques—Chances, Challenges and the Neglected Question of Sustainability
♫ MuSiQue: Multihop Questions via Single-hop Question Composition
📚 Books worth reading
The schoolmasters assistantThomas Dilworth, Moses Browne · 1744
Der JudenstaatTheodor Herzl · 1896
Mein WeltbildAlbert Einstein, Neil Berger · 1934
BiologyDavid Krogh · 2002
A short but comprehensive system of the geography of the worldNathaniel Dwight · 1795
What If?Randall Munroe · 1980
Fundamentals of NursingPatricia A. Potter · 1985
PsychologySaundra K. Ciccarelli · 2006
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