Opinion Polling Systems and Virtual Opinion Pollsters [via Collaborative Software Community Group]

Digital personal assistants (i.e. Cortana, Google Now, Siri) or other "bots" can
schedule and perform opinion polls. Specialized artificial intelligence systems,
opinion polling systems or virtual opinion pollsters, can be of use to opinion
polling organizations, to news organizations and to city governments.

Opinion polls can be created to open and to close at certain times. Opinion
polling systems can schedule and coordinate multiple opinion polls with large
numbers of respondents. Scheduling processes are envisioned as involving
interactions with users and software coordination with users' digital personal
assistant software and calendar apps.

The Microsoft Bot Framework supports multiple channels of interaction, including
Skype. Opinion polling systems can, while providing anonymity in terms of
polling results, authenticate users including based upon biometrics, resembling
the functionality of Windows Hello. The Microsoft Bot Framework also supports
hyperlinks; opinion polling systems can provide hyperlinks before or during
opinion poll questions to better inform users. Web browsing could become part of
modeling the contexts which occur as respondents complete questionnaires.
Virtual opinion pollsters can also, in dialogs, answer questions which
respondents might ask.

Virtual opinion pollsters can generate and perform open-ended questions and
process open-ended natural language responses including follow-up questions
which explore the rationale, justification and argumentation of respondents'
answers to previous questions. Virtual opinion pollsters can perform lists,
trees or graphs of questions, paths varying based upon respondents' answers,
dynamic natural language dialogs generated in accordance with the best practices
of questionnaire construction. 

The software components of opinion polling systems can process human-generated
questionnaires and other dialogs and transcripts, sequences of questions or of
both questions and answers, for topics such as questionnaire construction issues
or similar issues with dialogs. The components can also provide functionality
for computer-aided questionnaire authoring tools.

Opinion polling systems can facilitate large-scale group reasoning and
decision-support systems, where reason prevails from inclusive and participatory
processes, including those processes which involve a number of polls or dialogs.



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