Author Q&A: Lee Smith

Effect of the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Suicide Prevention Program on Suicide Attempts Among Youths.

IMPORTANCE Youth suicide prevention is a major public health priority. Studies documenting the effectiveness of community-based suicide prevention programs in reducing the number of nonlethal suicide attempts have been sparse. OBJECTIVE To determine whether a reduction in suicide attempts among youths occurs following the implementation of the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Suicide Prevention Pro...

Qa@l2f@qa@clef

This paper introduces L2F’s (INESC-ID) question/answering system and presents its results in the QA@CLEF07 evaluation task. QA@LF bases its performance on a high-quality deep linguistic analysis of the question, which is strongly based on named entity recognition. However, if a precise analysis is not possible or if no answer is found in previous processed data, the system is also capable of re...

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QA@L2F, Second Steps at QA@CLEF

This paper describes the participation of QA@LF, the question-answering system from LF/INESC-ID, at the QA track of CLEF in 2008. Making intensive use of a Natural Language Processing chain (which includes, among others, a morphological analyzer, a disambiguation module, a multi-word recognizer, a chunker and a named entities recognizer), QA@LF is based on a three module approach to answer ques...