Answering the Bayesioskeptical Challenge

Euthanasia: A Challenge in Clinical Education

Introduction: Euthanasia is one of the most frequent question and challenging issue in clinical education. This paper aimed to investigate different views in this matter. Methods: This review article was prepared through searching scientific databases and literature that was published during 2000-2011. Results: Considering the ethical and religious principles, current views about euthanasia ...

Handling Information Access Dialogue Through QA Technologies - A Novel Challenge For Open-Domain Question Answering

A novel challenge for evaluating open-domain question answering technologies is proposed. In this challenge, question answering systems are supposed to be used interactively to answer a series of related questions, whereas in the conventional setting, systems answer isolated questions one by one. Such an interaction occurs in the case of gathering information for a report on a specific topic, o...

Question Answering Challenge for Information Access Dialogue - Overview of NTCIR4 QAC2 Subtask

We describe an overview of Question Answering Challenge (QAC) 2 Subtask 3, a novel challenge for evaluating open-domain question answering technologies, at the NTCIR Workshop 4. In QAC2 Subtask 3, question answering systems are supposed to be used interactively to answer a series of related questions, whereas in the conventional setting, systems answer isolated questions one by one. Such an int...

ARDA Challenge Workshop 2004 An Investigation of Evaluation Metrics for Analytic Question Answering

Interactive Natural Language Query Construction for Report Generation

Question answering is an age old AI challenge. How we approach this challenge is determined by decisions regarding the linguistic and domain knowledge our system will need, the technical and business acumen of our users, the interface used to input questions, and the form in which we should present answers to a user’s questions. Our approach to question answering involves the interactive constr...