... scale question and
answer (Q&A) archives have become an important
information resource on the Web. These include
the traditional Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
archives and the emerging community- based ... for
Question Part and Answer Part
In Q&A, a document D is decomposed into (
¯
q,
¯
a),
where
¯
q denotes the question part of the historical
question in the archives and
¯
a denotes the answer
part. ... the questions that are semantically
equivalent or relevant to the queried questions. For
example in Table 1, given question Q
1
, Q
2
can be re-
turned and their answers will then be used to answer
Q
1
because...
... Yahoo! Answers and
AnswerBag, provide portals where users can ask
their own questions as well as answer questions
from other users.
For our experiments we collected a dataset of
questions and answers, ... or partial answers:
• MAP
1
, R-Prec
1
: exact answer (1)
• MAP
1,5
, R-Prec
1,5
: exact answer (1) or par-
tial answer (5)
• MAP
1,4,5
, R-Prec
1,4,5
: exact answer (1) or
partial answer (5) ... well as question refor-
mulations, from the WikiAnswers
1
(WA) web site.
WikiAnswers is a social Q&A site similar to Ya-
hoo! Answers and AnswerBag. The main orig-
inality of WikiAnswers...
... written.
An answer a was given along with information
about the user u that authored it, the set T A
q
(To-
tal Answers) of all answers to the same question q
and the set T A
u
of all answers by ... overlap
between an answer and its question, while Novelty
was calculated as inverse overlap with all other
answers to the same question. A score was as-
signed to each concept in an answer according ... Chin-Yew Lin,
Dingyi Han, and Yong Yu. 2008. Understand-
ing and summarizing answers in community- based
question answering services. In Proceedings of the
22nd International Conference on Computational
Linguistics...
... you answered various questions. People often waver on
at least a couple of questions, so we've provided the full set of questions along with the
answer key.
= your answer
= correct answer ... "goes inside". The only answer option that fits this
relationship is "D", envelope.
32.
is to as is to
To answer this question, you first need to identify ... c
The cars are 20 miles apart, so answer option "D" is the correct answer.
Your
Tickle IQ Score
Your
Intelligence Type
Your
Intelligence Scales
IQ
Answer Key
What is
an IQ?
Average...
... luck” in answeranswer in question UH total answers received
”is an” in answer ”just” in answer UH questions resolved
”want to” in answer ”me” in answer Q content kl asker all cate
”we” in answer ... ”be” in answer Q prev avg rating
”want in” answer ”in the” in question CA avg asker rating
”adenocarcinoma” in question CA History “anybody” in question
”was” in question ”who is” in question ... per-
sonalization models.
Pers 1 (97 questions) Pers 2 (49 questions) Pers 3 (25 questions)
UH total answers received Q avg pos votes Q content kl trec
UH questions resolved ”would” in answer Q content kl wikipedia
”good...
... such as question/ answer classifi-
cation and that shallow semantics gives re-
markable contribution when a reliable set of
PASs can be extracted, e.g. from answers.
1 Introduction
Question answering ... sparse.
We learn answer classification with a binary SVM
which determines if an answer is correct for the tar-
get question: here, the classification instances are
question, answer pairs. Each ... which – labeled “+1”
– answered the question either concisely or with
noise; the rest – labeled “-1”– were either irrele-
vant to the question or contained hints relating to the
question but could...
... attempts to find meaningful answers to failed
questions by addressing any incorrect assumptions the
questioner may have made in her/his question. When the
direct response to a question would be simply ... search of the database
is initiated. Furthermore, the user is assured that the
answer s/he receives is an answer to the question asked
and not to a deviant version of it.
The idea of using a paraphraser ... user's question is passed to the
paraphraser which then generates a new version of the
question for the user. Upon seeing the
paraphrase, the
user has the option of rephrasing her/his question...
... syntactic answer sentence formu-
lations for syntactic question classes from a set of
example question/ answer sentence pairs. Unlike
the related work described above, it acknowledges
that a) a valid answer ... during
retrieval, where a question is matched against the
antecedents describing the syntax of the question.
90
place the answer sentences in the input file with
the questions, and assume that the question word
indicates ... against the question. Questions and
answer sentences are parsed with MiniPar (Lin,
1998) and the dependency output is analyzed in
order to determine whether relations present in a
question also...
... Answer Rate: Rate of answers annotated as the
best answer the author who gives the answer sentence
receives.
12. Total Answer Number: The number of total answers
by the author who gives the answer ... novel answer summarization
method for communityQuestion Answering
services (cQAs) to address the problem of “in-
complete answer , i.e., the “best answer of a
complex multi-sentence question ... as Yahoo! Answers, a resolved
question often gets more than one answers and a
“best answer will be chosen by the asker or voted
by other community participants. This {question,
best answer} pair...
... is the shortest. In this final chapter, I will respond
to only one question. But this question is the most important of all the
questions, and the one that truly does deserve a chapter all to itself:
Now ... function of enormous value to an orga-
nization and to all of its members. Performance appraisal answers the
questionsthateveryoneinanorganizationgenuinelyasks:Boss,how
am I doing? Is my work satisfactory? ...
Team-Fly
®
30 The Performance Appraisal Question and Answer Book
only a small number of key responsibilities or big rocks in the secre-
tary’s...
... for the other’
(
ob
57).
To which question is ‘substitution’ the answer? 241
site of intentionality and of freedom. Levinas also uses these terms to
bring into question the traditional assumption ... consensus about what the question is
to which substitution is supposed to be the answer. Only when this
is established will it be possible to address with any confidence the
questions scholars tend ... than take up a question that
arises from the account in Totality and Infinity of the questioning
of the self-sufficiency of the subject, which in ‘Substitution’ is
transformed into the question of...
... Interview Questions
Traditional interview questions are broad, allowing the candidate to select
an example of a work situation that fits the question asked. These tradi-
tional types of interview questions ... full control
over how you answer each question.
On the other hand, competency-based interview questions are spe-
cific. They require you to provide examples in response to questions that
are essential ... Because of this specificity, competency-based
questions are more difficult to answer and they require more thoughtful
responses.
Competency-style interview questions begin with phrases such as the
following:...
... on MEDLINE abstracts as the
source for answers.
3 Question Answering Approach
Conflicting desiderata shape the characteristics of
“answers” to clinical questions. On the one hand,
conciseness ... 1999. Analysis of
questions asked by family doctors regarding patient
care. BMJ, 319:358–361.
P. Gorman, J. Ash, and L. Wykoff. 1994. Can pri-
mary care physicians’ questions be answered using
the ... and Teach EBM.
Churchill Livingstone, second edition.
E. Voorhees. 2005. Using question series to eval-
uate question answering system effectiveness. In
HLT/EMNLP 2005.
Y. Zhao and G. Karypis. 2002....