Pisa Question and Reasoning Skill

PiQASso: Pisa Question Answering System

PiQASso is a Question Answering system based on a combination of modern IR techniques and a series of semantic filters for selecting paragraphs containing a justifiable answer. Semantic filtering is based on several NLP tools, including a dependency-based parser, a POS tagger, a NE tagger and a lexical database. Semantic analysis of questions is performed in order to extract keywords used in re...

Syllogistic Reasoning Tasks, Working Memory, and Skill

Knowledge and Reasoning for Medical Question-Answering

Restricted domains such as medicine set a context where question-answering is more likely expected to be associated with knowledge and reasoning (Mollá and Vicedo, 2007; Ferret and Zweigenbaum, 2007). On the one hand, knowledge and reasoning may be more necessary than in open-domain question-answering because of more specific or more difficult questions. On the other hand, it may also be more m...

The effect of short-term workshop on improving clinical reasoning skill of medical students

Background: Clinical reasoning process leads clinician to get purposeful steps from signs and symptoms toward diagnosis and treatment. This research intends to investigate the effect of teaching clinical reasoning on problem-solving skills of medical students.   Methods: This research is a semi-experimental study. Nineteen Medical student of the pediatric ward as case group participated...

A Fuzzy Reasoning Database Question Answering System

The present paper describes a question answering system based on fuzzy logic. The proposed system provides the capability to assess whether a database contains information pertinent to a subject of interest by evaluating each comment in the database via a fuzzy evaluator that attributes a fuzzy membership value indicating its relationship to such subject. An assessment is provided for the datab...