This paper describes the Question Answering for Machine Reading (QA4MRE) Main Task at the 2013 Cross Language Evaluation Forum. In the main task, systems answered multiple-choice questions on documents concerned with four different topics. There were also two pilot tasks, Machine Reading on Biomedical Texts about Alzheimer's disease, and Japanese Entrance Exams. This paper describes the prepara...

This paper describes our participation to the Entrance Exams Task of CLEF 2014’s Question Answering Track. The goal is to answer multiple-choice questions on short texts. Our system first retrieves passages relevant to the question, through lexical expansion involving a structured use of the Simple English Wiktionary and WordNet. Then it extracts predicate-argument structures (PAS) from each an...

The NTCIR-12 QA Lab-2 task aims at the real-world complex Question Answering (QA) technologies using Japanese university entrance exams and their English translation on the subject of “World history”. The exam questions are roughly divided into multiple-choice and free-description styles, and have various question formats, which are essay, factoid, slot-filling, true-or-false and so on. We cond...

This paper describes the systems and results of the team KSU for QA Lab-3 task in NTCIR-13. We have been developing question answering systems for the world history multiple-choice questions in the National Center Test for University Admissions. We newly developed automatic answering systems for the world history questions in the secondstage exams of Japanese entrance examinations consisting of...

Social insect colonies use interactions among workers to regulate collective behavior. Harvester ant foragers interact in a chamber just inside the nest entrance, here called the 'entrance chamber'. Previous studies of the activation of foragers in red harvester ants show that an outgoing forager inside the nest experiences an increase in brief antennal contacts before it leaves the nest to for...

The article scrutinises the application process and its consequences in terms of educational inequalities early selective grammar schools Hungary. focus is on almost one-year-long preparation for entrance exams to these schools. Its main aim depict how gradual nature getting into secondary education intensifies social selection within sector. analysis based upon findings a mixed method research...

The present study examines the associations between tactical performance indexes with quality of tactical behaviours and birth-date quarters of youth Soccer players. The sample comprised a total of 534 youth players classified into four seasons of 3 months (January-March; April-June; July-September; October-December). A system of tactical assessment in Soccer (FUT-SAT) was used to collect data....

Despite the voluminous literature on the potentials of single-sex schools, there is no consensus on the effects of single-sex schools because of student selection of school types. We exploit a unique feature of schooling in Seoul-the random assignment of students into single-sex versus coeducational high schools-to assess causal effects of single-sex schools on college entrance exam scores and ...