Fulham Training School, This doubtless would be found most useful by the pupils of that school taken in conjunction with their notes ot' the lectures, but we do not think it will be of so much utility to others, except perhaps affording assistance to those called upon to train midwives. The second portion consists of actual questions set at the L. 0. S. examination, classified under their prope...

This paper describes the Entrance Exams task at the CLEF QA Track 2014. Following 2013 edition, the data set has been extracted from actual university entrance examinations including a variety of topics and question types. Systems receive a set of Multiple-Choice Reading Comprehension tests where the task is to select the correct answer among a finite set of candidates, according to the given t...

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...