Sure; this would be the equivalent of a "lossy" compression algorithm which encodes the result in terms of a question using semantics related to the respondent'

Sure; this would be the equivalent of a "lossy" compression algorithm which encodes the result in terms of a question using semantics related to the respondent's knowledge to produce a specific response. Anyone who has been through elementary school should understand this is the basic objective of a "short answer" question. Also "Jeopardy" is a fair example of this.