The English rise-fall-rise contour has played an important role in the development of theories of intonational meaning, but there have been only few experimental studies testing their predictions. This paper reports on production and perception experiments which investigate the idea that the RFR is an intonational tune that conveys that the current assertion is not a complete answer to the ques...

The European Commission Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency (CHAFEA) call for tender to carry out two studies on the added value of strategic and life-course approach to vaccination , and on shortcomings related to low vaccination in healthcare workers, respectively, will close on 13 September 2016. According to the tender document 'each study has to include a representativ...

We propose strategic games wherein the strategies consist of players asking each other questions and answering those questions. We study simplifications of such games wherein two players simultaneously ask each other a question that the opponent is then obliged to answer. The motivation for our research is to model conversation including the dynamics of questions and answers, to provide new lin...

AnswerFinder is a framework for the development of question-answering systems. AnswerFinder is currently being used to test the applicability of graph representations for the detection and extraction of answers. In this paper we briefly describe AnswerFinder and introduce our method to learn graph patterns that link questions with their corresponding answers in arbitrary sentences. The method i...

. This paper discusses active teaching and learning strategies that have been used in the TeNeT Online tutorials [1]. The focus of these tutorials is to enable rural students to pass the Standard X examination. The highlight of the tutorial is the use of the Question and Answer format. This problem-solving approach is evident in its three-pronged format: Learn, Practice and Test. Every module i...

We present corpus-based approach to question answering, which enables our system to classify a question category, generate a query and verify answer candidates. The system uses the Internet to find information required to provide an answer. The role of the corpus-based modules is to support the system with knowledge that provides the means to effectively use previously answered questions as the...