Q&A for Pesticides risk

UAIC Romanian QA System for QA@CLEF

This paper briefly describes UAIC’s participation in this year's CLEF question answering competition, focusing on the main challenges and changes compared to our last year participation. An analysis of the errors introduced by each module is also discussed.

Qa@l2f@qa@clef

This paper introduces L2F’s (INESC-ID) question/answering system and presents its results in the QA@CLEF07 evaluation task. QA@LF bases its performance on a high-quality deep linguistic analysis of the question, which is strongly based on named entity recognition. However, if a precise analysis is not possible or if no answer is found in previous processed data, the system is also capable of re...

Application of Genomics to Regulatory Ecological Risk Assessments for Pesticides

Use-Exposure Relationships of Pesticides for Aquatic Risk Assessment

Field-scale environmental models have been widely used in aquatic exposure assessments of pesticides. Those models usually require a large set of input parameters and separate simulations for each pesticide in evaluation. In this study, a simple use-exposure relationship is developed based on regression analysis of stochastic simulation results generated from the Pesticide Root-Zone Model (PRZM...

On-farm Risk Assessment of Agricultural Pesticides

UK Government policy is seeking to optimise agricultural pesticide use and encourage the adoption of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) techniques. An integral part of IPM is selecting pesticides that are likely to pose the least environmental risk. Environmental risk assessment is a highly technical process and is heavily data dependant making a scientifically sound approach on-farm unrealistic ...