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Seeking Answers for Post-Infectious Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Retrospective and prospective studies published over the past 15 years have revealed incidences of PI-IBS ranging from seven to 31 percent, with follow-up periods of three months to six years following AGE. Of note, these studies spanned multiple continents and involved an array of gut pathogens. A recent meta-analysis calculated a 9.8 percent prevalence of IBS following AGE compared to 1.2 per...

Supporting Human Answers for Advice-Seeking Questions in CQA Sites

In many questions in Community Question Answering sites users look for the advice or opinion of other users who might offer diverse perspectives on a topic at hand. The novel task we address is providing supportive evidence for human answers to such questions, which will potentially help the asker in choosing answers that fit her needs. We present a support retrieval model that ranks sentences ...

Five Answers on Pragmatism

Prof. Haack answers a series of questions on pragmatism, beginning with the origins of this tradition in the work of Peirce and James, its evolution in the work of Dewey and Mead, and its influence beyond the United States in, for example, the Italian pragmatists and the radical British pragmatist F. C. S. Schiller. Classical pragmatism, she observes, is a rich and varied tradition from which t...

On Yahoo Answers, Long Answers are Best

We provide an analysis of best answers (as chosen by questioners) on Yahoo Answers, a popular online Q&A site with millions of monthly contributors. Our analysis is done mainly through the lens of prediction: we compile a dataset that is as large and fine-grained as any considered before, generate features across a range of different classes, and build a classifier to predict which answers will...