The NTCIR-12 QA Lab-2 task aims at the real-world complex Question Answering (QA) technologies using Japanese university entrance exams and their English translation on the subject of “World history”. The exam questions are roughly divided into multiple-choice and free-description styles, and have various question formats, which are essay, factoid, slot-filling, true-or-false and so on. We cond...

background: education is the most important task of a university and the mission of faculty members and improving of its quality lead to improve education quality. evaluation of teacher is one of the processes that are carried out to this quality improving. this study was conducted to compares the priorities of evaluation items from view of teachers and students of lorestan university of medica...

A Pilot Question Answering Task has been activated in the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum 2004 with a twofold objective. In the first place, the evaluation of Question Answering systems when they have to answer conjunctive lists, disjunctive lists and questions with temporal restrictions. In the second place, the evaluation of systems’ capability to give an accurate self-scoring about the confi...

In this paper, we describe answer extraction method for non-factoid questions. We classified non-factoid type questions into three types: why type, definition type and how type. We analyzed each type of questions and developed answer extraction patterns for these types of questions. For automatic evaluation, we have developed BE based evaluation tool for answers of questions. BE method is origi...

We propose a method for using the scoring values of passages to effectively retrieve documents in a Question Answering system. For this, we suggest evaluation function that considers proximity between each question terms in passage. And using this evaluation function , we extract a documents which involves scoring values in the highest collection, as a suitable document for question. The propos...

Previous work from our laboratories has shown that monolingual Japanese adults who were given intensive high-variability perceptual training improved in both perception and production of English /r/-/l/ minimal pairs. In this study, we extended those findings by investigating the long-term retention of learning in both perception and production of this difficult non-native contrast. Results sho...

With the international trade of genetic material of dairy bulls there is a need for genetic evaluations performed internationally. For this reason Interbull and the Interbull centre was established, today 42 countries are members of the organization and 26 countries participating in one or several genetic evaluations. At this moment there are no alternative to fully participate in the evaluatio...

With the continued growth of online semantic information, the processes of searching and managing this massive scale and heterogeneous content have become increasingly challenging. In this work, we present PowerAqua, an ontologybased Question Answering system that is able to answer queries by locating and integrating information, which can be massively distributed across heterogeneous semantic ...

People with epilepsy have various education needs and must adopt many self-management behaviors in order to control their condition. This study evaluates WebEase, an Internet-based, theory-driven, self-management program for adults with epilepsy. Thirty-five participants took part in a 6-week pilot implementation of WebEase. The main components of WebEase are My Log, a behavioral journal, and t...