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Automated Skimming System in Response to Questions for NonVisual Readers

This paper presents factors in designing a system for automatically skimming text documents in response to a question. The system will take a potentially complex question and a single document and return a Web page containing links to text related to the question. The goal is that these text areas be those that visual readers would spend the most time on when skimming for the answer to a questi...

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All insect pest control programmes currently releasing sterile insects use radioisotope irradiators using either 60 Cobalt or 137 Caesium for gamma sterilization. This technology has proven to be extremely reliable for this purpose. However, the current situation regarding the growing complexities of the transboundary shipment of radioiso-topes and the fear of terrorism (in particular of a 'dir...

A Message to Readers

going to look for a reviewer if I get a book on Optimization Techniques in the Steel Industry. But beyond that, books appear to be somewhat randomly selected and reviewed. Editors of such publications can rarely make the claim that the lists of books reviewed in their publications over some period represent in some considered sense the most important or significant books in the subject area in ...