Gender in Question

Investigating Embedded Question Reuse in Question Answering

The investigation presented in this paper is a novel method in question answering (QA) that enables a QA system to gain performance through reuse of information in the answer to one question to answer another related question. Our analysis shows that a pair of question in a general open domain QA can have embedding relation through their mentions of noun phrase expressions. We present methods f...

English loanwords in Polish and the question of gender assignment

[On "Men, health and public policies: gender equality in question"].

Sobre " Homens, saúde e políticas públicas: a equidade de gênero em questão " On " Men, health and public policies: gender equality in question " Marcos Nascimento 4 Sergio Carrara 5 No artigo produzido por Maria Thereza Couto (USP) e Romeu Gomes (Fiocruz), os autores bus-cam problematizar a articulação entre saúde e políti-cas públicas, com foco específico na saúde dos ho-mens e suas implicaçõ...

[Men, health and public policies: gender equality in question].

The scope of this article is to pose questions on the theme of Men, Health and Public Policies to render debate on the subject viable, based on theoretical and empirical references related to these issues. Initially, some historical landmarks on the theme are presented to provide guidelines for debate. An overview of the gender agenda in public policies is then presented to introduce the discus...

Challenging Canon: the Gender Question in Computer Science

The gender question in computer science is often presented as: “Why are there sofew women in computer science and what can be done about that?” This questionusually focuses on women. Sometimes ‘men’ or ‘gender’ enter the discussions.However, it is not common that the second part of the sentence computer scienceis considered. The papers in this thesis challenge, in different ways...