A Digitalis Therapy Advisor with Explanations

Abstract

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.

Cite

Text

Swartout. "A Digitalis Therapy Advisor with Explanations." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1977.

Markdown

[Swartout. "A Digitalis Therapy Advisor with Explanations." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1977.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1977/swartout1977ijcai-digitalis/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{swartout1977ijcai-digitalis,
  title     = {{A Digitalis Therapy Advisor with Explanations}},
  author    = {Swartout, William R.},
  booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {1977},
  pages     = {819-825},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1977/swartout1977ijcai-digitalis/}
}