Leveraging Question Answer technology to address terrorism inquiry

Leveraging Question Answer technology to address terrorism inquiry

This paper investigates the potential use of dialog-based ALICEbots in disseminating terrorism information to the general public. In particular, we study the acceptance and response satisfaction of ALICEbot responses in both the general conversation and terrorism domains. From our analysis of three different knowledge sets: general conversation, terrorism, and combined, we found that users were...

Question Answer TARA: A Terrorism Activity Resource Application

Terrorism research has lately become a national priority. Researchers and citizens alike are coming to grips with obtaining relevant and pertinent information from vast storehouses of information gateways, dictionaries, self-authoritative websites, and sometimes obscure government information. Specific queries need to be manually sought after, or left to the mercy of search engines that are gen...

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A Simple Answer to Gelfand's Question

Using elementary techniques, a question named after the famous Russian mathematician I. M. Gelfand is answered. This concerns the leading (i.e., most significant) digit in the decimal expansion of integers 2n, 3n, . . . , 9n . The history of this question, some of which is very recent, is reviewed.

On Foguel's Answer to Nagy's Question

Nagy's question is whether or not every power-bounded operator is similar to a contraction [3]. ("Power-bounded" means that the norms of the positive powers are bounded.) Foguel's answer is no [l]. The purpose of this note is to look at Foguel's ingenious counterexample from a point of view somewhat different from his own. The advantage of the new look is that it is less computational; its draw...