A Digitalis Therapy Advisor with Explanations

This thesis describes the English explanation facility of the OWL Digitalis Advisor, a program designed to advise physicians regarding digitalis therapy. The program is written in OWL, an English-based computer language being developed at MIT. The system can explain, in English, both the methods i...

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Main Author: Swartout, William R.
Other Authors: Martin, William A.
Published: 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/149469
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description This thesis describes the English explanation facility of the OWL Digitalis Advisor, a program designed to advise physicians regarding digitalis therapy. The program is written in OWL, an English-based computer language being developed at MIT. The system can explain, in English, both the methods it uses and how those methods were applied during a particular session. In addition, the program can explain how it acquires information and tell the user how it deals with that information either in general or during a particular session.
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spelling mit-1721.1/1494692023-03-30T03:40:19Z A Digitalis Therapy Advisor with Explanations Swartout, William R. Martin, William A. Szolovits, Peter This thesis describes the English explanation facility of the OWL Digitalis Advisor, a program designed to advise physicians regarding digitalis therapy. The program is written in OWL, an English-based computer language being developed at MIT. The system can explain, in English, both the methods it uses and how those methods were applied during a particular session. In addition, the program can explain how it acquires information and tell the user how it deals with that information either in general or during a particular session. 2023-03-29T15:01:02Z 2023-03-29T15:01:02Z 1977-02 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/149469 03269647 MIT-LCS-TR-176 application/pdf
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