Full points can be obtained for correct answers to 8 questions. Each numbered question (which may have several parts) is worth 20 points. All answers will be graded, but the score for the examination will be the sum of the scores of your best 8 solutions. Use separate answer sheets for each question. DO NOT PUT YOUR NAME ON YOUR ANSWER SHEETS. When you have finished, insert all your answer shee...

La pluripatología, la dependencia y la fragilidad asociadas a la vejez y a la merma de las capacidades de la persona suponen un sufrimiento importante que debe tenerse en cuenta en estrategias y planes terapéuticos. La respuesta al diagnóstico de una enfermedad crónica siempre tiene implicaciones psicológicas y sociales complejas, que dan lugar a una merma en la calidad de vida percibida por la...

Matching a question to its best answer is a common task in community question answering. In this paper, we focus on the non-factoid questions and aim to pick out the best answer from its candidate answers. Most of the existing deep models directly measure the similarity between question and answer by their individual sentence embeddings. In order to tackle the problem of the information lack in...

Purpose – This study investigates the ways in which effectiveness of answers in Yahoo! Answers, one of the largest community question answering sites (CQAs), is related to question types and answerer reputation. Effective answers are defined as those that are detailed, readable, superior in quality, and contributed promptly. Five question types that were studied include factoid, list, definitio...