Annotating answers with their properties

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When responding to queries, humans often volunteer additional information about their answers. Among other things, they may qualify the answer as to its reliability, and they may provide some abstract characterization of the answer. This paper describes a user interface to relational databases that similarly annotates its answers with their properties. The process assumes that various assertions about properties of the data have been stored in the database (meta-information). These assertions are then used to infer properties of each answer provided by the system (meta-answers). Meta-answers are offered to users along with each answer issued, and help them to assess the value and meaning of the information that they receive.

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