The document discusses a project called "Thousand Questions" where members of the public submitted questions live that the system had to respond to unpredictably. It explores the unpredictability of live queries and how the system had to handle a wide range of questions, including ones involving mathematical operators, relational operators, and unpredictable personal questions. The document also includes a definition of a query language from a 1980 paper as being a linguistic tool for requesting information from a database and receiving a response.

1. Interfacing with questions:
The unpredictability of live queries in the work of ‘Thousand Questions’
Winnie Soon, Aarhus University @ ICLI2016

2. If I wrote you a love letter would you write back?
(and thousands of other questions)
by Winnie Soon and Helen Pritchard

3. Mathematical operators
Unpredictability of live queries

4. Query
[a] query language is a well-defined linguistic tool, the expressions of which
correspond to requests one might want to make a data base. With each request,
or query, there is associated a response, or answer.
(Chandra and Harel 1980, p. 156)

6. Relational operators
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7. If I wrote you a love letter would you write back?
Winnie Soon, Aarhus University @ siusoon.net