Research Question

A Research Question is an domain-specific open question about an Area of Knowledge.

• Context:
  • It can be an Input to a Research Task
  • It can be within a Research Topic.
  • It can range from being an Applied Research Question, an Empirical Research Question, to being a Pure Research Question (e.g. “P=NP?”).
  • It can associated with a Research Challenge.
  • It can range from being an Open Research Question to being an Answered Research Question.
• Example(s):
  • a Theoretical Computing Science Question, such as: P=NP?.
  • a Computational Linguistics Research Question.
  • a Natural Language Processing Research Question, such as: a PPLRE Research Questions.
  • a Machine Learning Research Question of a Knowledge Discovery from Databases (KDD) Research Question.
  • an Information Extraction Research Question.
  • an Empirical Research Question, such as: Is there empirical evidence for [math]\displaystyle{ E=mc^2 }[/math]?
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Tautology.
  • an Engineering Question.
  • an Operational Question.
  • a Philosophical Dilemma.
• See: Research Interest.

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