OBJECTIVES To examine the risk of overall elder mistreatment (EM) and its subtypes in each sociodemographic and socioeconomic group based on different definitional criteria. METHODS In person interviews were conducted with 3,159 Chinese older adults in the Greater Chicago Area from 2011 to 2013. Psychological mistreatment, physical mistreatment, sexual abuse, caregiver neglect, and financial ...

In definitional question answering (QA), it is essential to rank the candidate answers. In this paper, we propose an online learning algorithm, which dynamically construct the supervisor to reduce the adverse effects of the large number of bad answers and noisy data. We compare our method with two state-of-the-art definitional QA systems and two ranking algorithms, and the experimental results ...

This contribution aims at showing some of the advantages of taking a novel, broad and systemic view on constitutive rules based on a failure oriented analysis, relying on the notion of impasse. Basically, impasses can descend by two main kinds of causes: either a mismatch between rules (how things should be done) and facts (how things are actually done), or an internal contradiction among rules...

The paper reports on a comparative study of two approaches to extracting definitional sentences from a corpus of scholarly discourse: one based on bootstrapping lexico-syntactic patterns and another based on deep analysis. Computational Linguistics was used as the target domain and the ACL Anthology as the corpus. Definitional sentences extracted for a set of well-defined concepts were rated by...

This paper describes the experiments of the TALPUPC group for factoid and ’other’ (definitional) questions at TREC 2005 Main Question Answering (QA) task. Our current approach for factoid questions is based on a voting scheme among three QA systems: TALP-QA (our previous QA system), Sibyl (a new QA system developed at DAMA-UPC and TALP-UPC), and Aranea (a web-based data-driven approach). For de...

This paper shows how rewriting logic semantics (RLS) can be used as a computational logic framework for operational semantic definitions of programming languages. Several operational semantics styles are addressed: big-step and small-step structural operational semantics (SOS), modular SOS, reduction semantics with evaluation contexts, and continuation-based semantics. Each of these language de...

INTRODUCTION Fifteen years into the twenty-first century, the challenges for public health may have changed but have not diminished. Complacency, systems inertia, and national selfinterest remain powerful barriers to global and universal health improvement. As joint chief editors for this new specialty journal, we lay out an ambitious mission: to work with the editorial board and colleagues wor...

This paper presents an executable rewriting logic semantics of RRS Scheme using the K definitional technique [19]. We refer to this definition as K-Scheme. The presented semantics follows the K language definitional style but is almost entirely equational. It can also be regarded as a denotational specification with an initial model semantics of Scheme. Equational specifications can be executed...