Community question answering (cQA) websites are focused on users who query questions onto an online forum, expecting for other users to provide them answers or suggestions. Unlike other social media, the length of the posted queries has no limits and queries tend to be multi-sentence elaborations combining context, actual questions, and irrelevant information. We approach the problem of questio...

Results Of the 10 evidence-informed guidelines list below, “Maintain ethical standards of practice” was rated the highest, with “Access relevant information to find evidence-informed answers to questions that arise in clinical practice” coming in second and “Integrate multiple forms of evidence into clinical practice” ranked third most significant. 1. Define EIP and describe its role 2. Describ...

Semantic query optimization is the process of utilizing information implied by integrity constraints to reformulate the query into one that generates the same set of answers in a more ef®cient way. The dif®culties of identifying relevant integrity constraints for a given query have been well recognized as have the various solutions. However, most of the previous works consider the query consist...

Keyword Search Over Relational Databases (KSORDB) provides an easy way for casual users to access relational databases using a set of keywords. Although much research has been done and several prototypes have been developed recently, most of this research implements exact (also called syntactic or keyword) match. So, if there is a vocabulary mismatch, the user cannot get an answer although the ...

The World Wide Web is a rich resource of information and knowledge. Within this resource, finding relevant answers to some given question is often a time consuming activity for a user. In the presented work we construct a web mining technique that can extract information from the web and create knowledge from it. The extracted knowledge can be used to respond more intelligently to user requests...

HITIQA is an interactive question answering technology designed to allow intelligence analysts and other users of information systems to pose questions in natural language and obtain relevant, factual answers, or the assistance they require in order to perform their tasks. Furthermore, our objective in HITIQA is to allow the user to submit exploratory, analytical, nonfactual questions, such as ...

This FYI RFC is one of two FYI’s called, "Questions and Answers" (Q/A), produced by the User Services Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The goal is to document the most commonly asked questions and answers in the Internet. New Questions and Answers In addition to updating information contained in the previous version of this FYI RFC, the following new questions have b...

Prior research has shown that social interaction is important for continuation of question-and-answer (Q&A) activity online and that it also leads to monetary rewards. The present research focuses on the link between social interaction and the value of information. Expressions of self-presentation in the interaction between askers and answerers online are studied as antecedents for answer feedb...