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Answering Questions About Moving Objects in Videos

Current question answering systems succeed in many respects regarding questions about textual documents. However, information exists in other media, which provides both opportunities and challenges for question answering. We describe our efforts in extending question answering capabilities to video data: our implemented prototype, Spot, can answer questions about moving objects in a surveillanc...

Answering Questions about Questions: A Persuasion Knowledge Perspective for Understanding the Effects of Rhetorical Questions

Past research is not clear on the process by which rhetorical questions influence persuasion (i.e., increased focus on message arguments vs. on the persuasion agent). Based on recent theories of persuasion knowledge and rhetorical figures in advertising, our model delineates conditions under which rhetoricals are likely to enhance argument elaboration (low salience of the rhetorical) and those ...

Answering Questions about the Causes of Software Behaviors Thesis Proposal

Most useful software undergoes a brief period of rapid development, followed by a much longer period of maintenance and adaptation. As a result, software developers spend most of their time exploring and analyzing a system’s underlying source code in order to determine the parts of the system that are relevant to their tasks. Because these parts are often distributed throughout a system’s modul...

Answering Questions About Tourism: A Growing Economic Development Tool