We explore a hybrid approach for Chinese definitional question answering by combining deep linguistic analysis with surface pattern learning. We answer four questions in this study: 1) How helpful are linguistic analysis and pattern learning? 2) What kind of questions can be answered by pattern matching? 3) How much annotation is required for a pattern-based system to achieve good performance? ...

Results of qualitative biographical research on Christian fundamentalist converts and de-converts, and on occultist adolescents are presented and documented using case studies. Research focused on life themes and on biographical processes and transformations. Contrastive comparison of the cases resulted in typologies of Christian fundamentalist biographies and of "ways of dis-enchantment". Thes...

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BACKGROUND Although biographical narratives and work involving the meaning of biographical episodes is a central focus in any psychotherapy, there remains a lack of psychometric instruments for measuring the autobiographical construction as such. We will be presenting a theoretical model of an autobiographical construction of life themes and the Interview of Retrospective Exploration of Life th...

In this paper we present the Ainm.ie online collection of Irish-language biographies. This collection is a product of a project to retro-digitise the Beathaisnéis series, published between 1986 and 2007, as well as ongoing biographical work to expand and enrich the collection. The Beathaisnéis series comprised biographical accounts of 1,650 lives and an additional 520 amendments and supplementa...

Gauging one's impression on a potential mate is challenging. There is a need to make reasonably accurate inferences from subtle, dynamic facial expressions and to maintain motivation to connect despite the risk of rejection. The interpersonal optimism of people low in rejection sensitivity (RS), people who confidently expect acceptance rather than anxiously expect rejection, as do their high RS...

Taking as its point of departure Bury's (1982) concept of chronic illness as biographical disruption, this paper provides a critical assessment of its fortunes since that time. Having `rescued' the concept from recent postmodern and disability critiques, the paper provides a series of further reflections on its strengths and weaknesses, including the notion of `normal illness'; the importance o...