We present an approach to non-factoid answer selection with a separate component based on BiLSTM to determine the importance of segments in the input. In contrast to other recently proposed attention-based models within the same area, we determine the importance while assuming the independence of questions and candidate answers. Experimental results show the effectiveness of our approach, which...

INTRODUCTION Vibrato is the periodic fluctuation in pitch, amplitude and/or timbre of a musical tone. It is used by singers, string players, and, in some cases, by wind instrumentalists to ornament or color a tone. Vibrato research has focused on the general characteristics of vibrato, such as its form (generally found to be sinusoidal, but mostly trapezoidal according to Horii, 1989b), its per...

(A) Explain how the tools of statistical learning (Bayesian or otherwise) might be useful in thinking about paradigm shifts in science. Is a paradigm shift just the replacement of one model or hypothesis by another, or does it involve something more? (B) What would be the analogy of a Kuhnian paradigm shift in human learning or machine learning? Give at least one specific example of a phenomeno...

to Citizens' Advice Bureaux". It does not attempt to do more than pinpoint a number of problems arising when there is mental disorder in the family, but the range of 37 questions and answers is wide and carefully selected. Questions dealt with include "How is treatment for mental disorder arranged?" "Can the mental welfare officer call to see the patient against his will?" "If the local authori...

The theory of program result checking introduced in Blum] allows one to check that a program P correctly computes the function f on input x. The checker may use P 's outputs on other inputs to help it check that P (x) = f(x). In this setting, P is always assumed to be a xed program, whose output on input x is a function P (x). We extend the theory to check a program P which returns a result on ...

the research was a descriptive study to assess knowledge, attitude and practice (kap) of nurses regarding care of elderly patients.   a total of 180 nurses working in medical, surgical and neurology units participated in this study. the tool was a 2 part questionnaire that the first part included demographic characteristics of the subjects like age, sex, marriage, education, past experience in ...

As students read expository text, comprehension is improved by pausing to answer questions that reinforce the material. We describe an automatic question generator that uses semantic pattern recognition to create questions of varying depth and type for self-study or tutoring. Throughout, we explore how linguistic considerations inform system design. In the described system, semantic role labels...

This paper describes the procedure adopted by the three coordinators of the CLEF 2003 question answering track (ITC-irst, UNED and ILLC) to create the question set for the monolingual tasks. Despite the little resources available, the three groups collaborated and managed to formulate and verify a large pool of original questions posed in three different languages: Dutch, Italian and Spanish. A...

Jacobson, M.Z., M.A. Delucchi, M.A. Cameron, and B.V, Mathiesen, Matching demand with supply at low cost among 139 countries within 20 world regions with 100% intermittent wind, water, and sunlight (WWS) for all purposes, Renewable Energy, 123, 236-248, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2018.02.009 , https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/CombiningRenew/WorldGridIntegratio...