... answer Q prev avg rating”want in answer in the” inquestion CA avg asker rating”adenocarcinoma” inquestion CA History “anybody” in question ”was” inquestion ”who is” inquestion Q content ... model.1 Introduction Community QuestionAnswering (CQA) has re-cently become a viable method for seeking infor-mation online. As an alternative to using general-purpose web search engines, information ... poorly, never obtaining a satisfactoryanswer. In our recent work (Liu et al., 2008) we have in- troduced a general model for predicting asker sat-isfaction incommunityquestion answering. Wefound...
... machine translation. In Proceedings of ACL.H. Duan and Y. Cao and C. Y. Lin and Y. Yu. 2008.Searching questions by identifying questions topicsand question focus. In Proceedings of ACL, pages156-164.J. ... exploring category infor-mation for question retrieval incommunity question answer archives. In Proceedings of WWW.D. Chiang. 2005. A hierarchical phrase-based model forstatistical machine ... modelsto phrase models. In Proceedings of CIKM.J. Jeon and W. Bruce Croft and J. H. Lee. 2005. Find-ing similar questions in large question and answerarchives. In Proceedings of CIKM, pages 84-90.R....
... drawconclusions relating to the psycholinguistics of dia-logue.4 Long term and short term priming In the following, we will examine syntactic (struc-tural) priming as one of the driving forces behindalignment. ... jmoore @ inf.ed.ac.ukSchool of InformaticsUniversity of EdinburghUnited KingdomAbstractTask-solving in dialogue depends on the lin-guistic alignment of the interlocutors, whichPickering & ... differ in how successfully informa-tion is conveyed. In task-oriented dialogue, wherethe interlocutors are communicating to solve a prob-lem, task success is a crucial indicator of the success of...
... expressed in a single sen-tence or a single post. Only identifying question and answering sentences from the thread is not enoughfor automatic question answering. For this example, in order ... SentenceRelation Labeling. In a thread containing N sentences, we wouldhave a 2D CRF containing N2nodes in a N × Ngrid. Exact inference in such a graph is intractable. In this paper we use ... dependencytagging. This dependency information canbenefit other tasks such as thread ranking andanswer summarization in online forums.1 IntroductionAutomatic QuestionAnswering (QA) systems...
... phenomena that are in- volved in determining answerhood.Our work suggests that considerable gains in performance can be obtained by incorporating TEduring both answer processing and passage re-trieval. ... asked in natural language. In the questfor producing accurate answers, the open-domainQ/A problem has been cast as: (1) a pipeline oflinguistic processes pertaining to the processingof questions, ... matching instances from ourtraining corpora described in Section 3.3. Thismethod did not always extract true paraphrases ofeither texts. In order increase the likelihood that909Processing Question Module(QP)PassageRetrievalModule(PR)Answer...
... 2000.Claire Cardie, Vincent Ng, David Pierce,Chris Buckley. Ex-amining the role of statistical and linguistic knowledgesources in a general-knowledge que stion answering sys-tem. In Proceedings of the ... 2000.Robert Gaizauskas and Kevin Humphreys. A com-bined IR/NLP approach to questionanswering againstlarge text collections. In Proceedings of the 6thContent-Based Multimedia Information Access Confer-ence ... with Open-Domain Textual Question Answer-ing. In the Proceedings of the 18th International Con-ference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2000),pages 292–298, 2000.Frederick Jelinek, John...
... E medical-findings [ show(X-ray,f)} Just printing the extension of this set, NO p ~tastases. 99 One problem in transforming phrases into predicate calculus and than regenerating them is ... generates a response. Our original system, like many current question- answering systems, had simple mechanisms for generating lists and tables in response to questions. As we broadened our ... direct answer to a question. When asked a yes-no question, a helpful question- answering system will try to provide more infor- mation than just "yes" or "no". In our system,...
... described in detail in (Costa, 2005a, 2005b). 2 System Architecture The inputs to the system are questions in natural language. Esfinge begins by transforming these questions into patterns ... pre-processing of document collections. Esfinge explores a dif-ferent approach: instead of investing in pre-processing corpora, it tries to use the redundancy existent in the web to find its ... Fernando Costa Linguateca at SINTEF ICT Pb 124 Blindern,0314 Oslo, Norwayluis.costa@sintef.noAbstractEsfinge is a general domain Portuguese question answering system. It tries to take...
... consists in creating additional queries using question wordsynonyms in the purpose of increasing the recallof the search engine. Synonyms are obtained viathe WordNet 2.03lexical database. Question QUERYEXPANSIONDOCUMENTRETRIEVALKEYPHRASEEXTRACTIONESTIMATIONOF ... Proceedings of the International Conference Re-search on Computational Linguistics (ROCLING X).C. C. T. Kwok, O. Etzioni, and D. S. Weld. 2001. Scal-ing questionanswering to the web. In World ... Voorhees. 2004. Overview of the TREC 2004 question answering track. In Text REtrieval Confer-ence.H. Witten and E. Frank. 2000. Data Mining: PracticalMachine Learning Tools and Techniques with JavaImplementation....
... Circulating levels of copeptin, a novel biomarker, in lower respiratory tract infections. Eur J Clin Invest 2007, 37:145-152.22. Christ-Crain M, Muller B: Biomarkers in respiratory tract infections: ... ultimate clinicalutility of a biomarker is defined by the degree it improvesclinical decision making and adds timely informationbeyond that of readily available information from clinicalexamination. ... enforced guideline recommendations with-out knowledge of PCT. The primary end-point in thisnon-inferiority trial was a combined endpoint of adversemedical outcomes within 30 days following the EDadmission....
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