introduction. development of a faculty evaluation program determines the unique values and priorities of an education institute. preparation of evaluation questionnaires on the basis of responders’ ideals and recognition, accuracy of analyses and practicality of assessment system are effective strategies for success. elimination of inappropriate or parallel questions will shorten the questionna...

Background: Evaluation of students’ educational progress is one of the main goals of universities. One of the most important means to this end is the final test. In this study, the results of the final residency tests for dermatology, ophthalmology and Gynecology and Obstetrics of Medical University of Mashhad in (Tir 1391) have been examined. Methods: in this applied study, the population cons...

OBJECTIVE Although parents' knowledge about child development and child rearing is relevant to pediatric practice, very little is known about immigrant parents' knowledge. To fill this gap in research, this study investigated parenting knowledge in 2 groups of mothers who had immigrated to the United States. DESIGN Japanese and South American immigrant mothers of 2-year-olds completed a stand...

The investigation presented in this paper is a novel method in question answering (QA) that enables a QA system to gain performance through reuse of information in the answer to one question to answer another related question. Our analysis shows that a pair of question in a general open domain QA can have embedding relation through their mentions of noun phrase expressions. We present methods f...

Introduction. Development of a faculty evaluation program determines the unique values and priorities of an education institute. Preparation of evaluation questionnaires on the basis of responders’ ideals and recognition, accuracy of analyses and practicality of assessment system are effective strategies for success. Elimination of inappropriate or parallel questions will shorten the questionna...

WebTalk is an intelligent agent that automatically mines company websites to create interactive spoken and chat-based dialog systems. In this paper, we briefly describe the technologies that WebTalk utilizes for extracting task knowledge from websites and answering questions specified in natural language. We elaborate on an evaluation of the question answering component of WebTalk. In particula...

Question Answering (QA) evaluation potentially provides a way to evaluate systems that attempt to understand texts automatically. Although current QA technologies are still unable to answer complex questions that require deep inference, we believe QA evaluation techniques must be adapted to drive QA research in the direction of deeper understanding of texts. In this paper we propose such evolut...

Question answering is different from information retrieval in that it attempts to answer questions by providing summaries from numerous retrieved documents rather than by simply providing a list of documents that requires users to do additional work. However, the quality of answers that question answering provides has not been investigated extensively, and the practical approach to presenting q...

We explore the applicability of machine translation evaluation (MTE) methods to a very different problem: answer ranking in community Question Answering. In particular, we adopt a pairwise neural network (NN) architecture, which incorporates MTE features, as well as rich syntactic and semantic embeddings, and which efficiently models complex non-linear interactions. The evaluation results show ...