This paper describes our system on simplified Chinese textual entailment recognizing RITE task at NTCIR-9. Both lexical and semantic features are extracted using NLP methods. Three classification models are used and compared for the classification task, Rule-based algorithms, SVM and C4.5. C4.5 gives the best result on testing data set. Evaluation at NTCIR-9 RITE shows 72% accuracy on BC subtas...

Although the transfer of wild animals to captivity is crucial for conservation purposes, this process is often challenging because some species or individuals do not adjust well to captive conditions. Chronic stress has been identified as a major concern for animals held on long-term captivity. Surprisingly, the first hours or days of captivity have been relatively overlooked. However, they are...

The motivation to join the RITE-2 task is to understand what kinds of linguistic and common knowledge are needed to recognize textual similarity in RITE-2 data. After a shallow manual analysis of RITE-2-bc example data, we found that morpheme similarity would be a major factor to recognize textual similarity. Thus we construct a threshold based inference system with Japanese WordNet as a base s...

RITE is a task recognizing logic relations between texts. This paper presents FDCS’s approach on NTCIR9-RITE Chinese simplified BC & MC subtasks. Our system is built on a machine learning architecture with features selected on shallow semantic methods, including named entity recognition, date & time expression extraction, words overlap and negation concept recognition. FudanNLP is wildly used b...

Nearly all medical schools incorporate some form of professional medical oath into their graduation ceremonies. The oldest and most popular of these oaths is the Hippocratic Oath, composed more than 2,400 years ago. In modern times, especially during the twentieth century, the Hippocratic Oath has had its content changed and its authorship challenged. This article discusses the history of the H...

When wild animals are brought into captivity for the first time, they frequently develop chronic stress symptoms. Animals can develop glucocorticoid dysregulation or changes in the sympathetic nervous system over the course of the first week in captivity. By blocking the action of epinephrine and norepinephrine using α- or β-blockers, we hoped to reduce the degree of chronic stress symptoms exh...

In this paper, we describe the details of our system for NTCIR-9 RITE. We sent 3 runs for each of the four sub-tasks: CT-BC, CTMC, CS-BC, and CS-MC. Our approach to the NTCIR-9 RITE task is based on the standard supervised learning classification. We integrate available computational linguistic resources of Chinese language processing to build the system in a statistical natural language proces...

BACKGROUND Open canal hearing instruments differ in method of sound delivery to the ear canal, distance between the microphone and the receiver, and physical size of the devices. Moreover, RITA (receiver in the aid) and RITE (receiver in the ear) hearing instruments may also differ in terms of retention and comfort as well as ease of use and care for certain individuals. What remains unclear, h...

The present study compares the efficacy of various disinfectants against Bacillus anthracis spores. While Bleach Rite(®) and 10% bleach reduce spore numbers by 90% within 10 minutes, a long contact time is required for complete disinfection. By contrast, although SporGon(®) did not initially reduce the number of spores as quickly as Bleach Rite or 10% bleach, shorter contact times were required...