Confidence Interval for Sensitive Binomial Attribute : Direct Question Method and Indirect Question Method

A question of method

conflicts of interest in biomedical research can endanger the independent judgement of researchers and, in a worst-case scenario, can result in harm to humans, animals or the environment, or avoidable damage to scientifically validated truths. Highly publicized cases of scientists who have downplayed the risk of passive smoking—while receiving funding from the tobacco industry—or researchers wh...

A Language Independent Method for Question Classification

Previous works on question classification are based on complex natural language processing techniques: named entity extractors, parsers, chunkers, etc. While these approaches have proven to be effective they have the disadvantage of being targeted to a particular language. We present here a simple approach that exploits lexical features and the Internet to train a classifier, namely a Support V...

Using Generalized Language Model for Question Matching

Question and answering service is one of the popular services in the World Wide Web. The main goal of these services is to finding the best answer for user's input question as quick as possible. In order to achieve this aim, most of these use new techniques foe question matching. . We have a lot of question and answering services in Persian web, so it seems that developing a question matching m...

A Method for GeoTime Information Retrieval based on Question Decomposition and Question Answering

monolithic method. – There is a trade-off relation between informativeness and robustness of analysis in each processing technique. • More informative  Less informative • Less robust More robust • We employ multiple complementary methods in order for our QA system to have a variety of informativeness and robustness. • Implementation: Raw score for an answer candidate AC in the i-th retrieve...

Belief as Question-Sensitive