{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"A Digitalis Therapy Advisor with Explanations","authors":[{"name":"William R. Swartout","slug":"william-r-swartout","given":"William R.","family":"Swartout","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"This paper describes the English explanati on facility of the OWL Digitalis Advisor, a program designed to adv i se physicians regarding digitalis therapy. The program is written in OWL, an English-based computer language be i ng developed at MIT. The system can explai n, 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.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/196","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/0196.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/196.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/bibtex/196","volume":{"slug":"1977","title":"Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1977","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/","year":1977,"location":"Cambridge, MA, USA","dates":"","editors":"Raj Reddy","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Specialized Systems","track":"Specialized Systems","number":196,"pages":{"first":819,"last":824},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}