This paper describes an approach for the integration of linguistic information in passage retrieval in an open-source question answering system for Dutch. Annotation produced by the wide-coverage dependency parser Alpino is stored in multiple index layers to be matched with natural language question that have been analyzed by the same parser. We present a genetic algorithm to select features to...

This paper provides an analysis of individual and social decision criteria for alternatives that are composed of several attributes. We derive additive and multiplicative criteria for individual decision-making with new axioms and apply these criteria to obtain new justifications of known social choice rules with a bargaining interpretation, namely, the generalized utilitarian and Nash social c...

Motivation der behandelten Fragestellung Digitalisierung und sich daraus bildende Innovationen beeinflussen unser aller Leben im privaten wie auch im beruflichen Umfeld. Eine zentrale Herausforderung ist die Gestaltung digitaler Innovationen gemeinsam mit einer breiten Zielgruppe, die die entwickelten Lösungen in ihren Alltag integrieren soll. Wie mit dieser Herausforderung umgegangen werden ka...

The work described in this thesis is part of the research program of the " Stichting voor Funda-menteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM) " , which is financially supported by the " Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO) ". If you understand, things are as they are. If you do not understand, things are as they are.

– wie sich die Arbeit mit digitalen Sprachressourcen in die Curricula der Hochschulgermanistik und der Lehrpläne für das Fach Deutsch an Schulen integrieren lässt und weshalb wir die Vermittlung entsprechender Kompetenzen in Lehramtsstudiengängen für wichtig und hochgradig berufsfeldrelevant halten, – wie wir an der Technischen Universität Dortmund in den Bereichen Linguistik und Sprachdidaktik...

Text-based and semantics-based methods are both studied intensively as methods for document retrieval. In order to gain insight in the respective merits of these two approaches, we have performed a controlled experiment where we executed a real-life task using both textbased and semantics-based techniques. To maximise the lessons that we could draw about the two approaches, we have performed an...

OBJECTIVE Studies regularly show a higher incidence, prevalence and mortality of cardiovascular disease among immigrant groups from low-income countries. Despite residing in the Netherlands for over 60 years, the Moluccan-Dutch cardiovascular disease profile and health care use are still unknown. We aimed to compare (a) the clinical prevalence of cardiovascular diseases and (b) the use of healt...