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Semi-Supervised Answer Extraction from Discussion Forums

Mining online discussions to extract answers is an important research problem. Methods proposed in the past used supervised classifiers trained on labeled data. But, collecting training data for each target forum is labor intensive and time consuming, thus limiting their deployment. A recent approach had proposed to extract answers in an unsupervised manner, by taking cues from their repetition...

Yasushi Tanaka

This article defines the concept of relocating the program part of a finite partial state of SCM (data part stays intact). The relocated program differs from the original program in that all jump instructions are adjusted by the relocation factor and other instructions remain unchanged. The main theorem states that if a program computes a function then the relocated program computes the same fu...

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A sentinel node biopsy (SNB) has been proved to be an accurate method to estimate the axillary lymph node status as a replacement for axillary lymph node dissection (AxLND) in patients with early breast cancer who have not been treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). We examined the feasibility and accuracy of performing SNB after NAC. Seventy breast cancer patients treated with NAC were e...

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Patients with unresectable advanced carcinoma of the uterine cervix are usually treated with chemotherapy or chemoradiotherapy. In the present study, the optimal administration protocol for etoposide in chemotherapy and chemoradiotherapy for advanced cervical cancer patients was investigated in vitro using the radio-sensitive and anticancer drug-sensitive human cervical squamous cell carcinoma ...

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