In this report we describe how the QALC system (the Question-Answering program of the LIR group at LIMSI-CNRS, already involved in the QA-track evaluation at TREC9), was improved in order to better extract the very answer in selected sentences. The purpose of the main Question-Answering track in TREC10 was to find text sequences no longer than 50 characters or to produce a "no answer" response ...

Multilinguality in ontologies has become an impending need for institutions worldwide with valuable linguistic resources in different natural languages. Since most ontologies are developed in one language, obtaining multilingual ontologies implies to localize or adapt them to a concrete language and culture community. As the adaptation of the ontology conceptualization demands considerable effo...

Case report Because of disturbances in visual acuity, the patient initially turned to the services of the Timişoara Ophthalmological Clinic in 2011, and was later sent to the Infectious Diseases Clinic of Timişoara, showing low grade fever, moderate hepatosplenomegaly, discreet subicteric sclera and a severely increasing deterioration of visual acuity. Direct ophthalmoscopy revealed disseminate...

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: Private company. Main source(s): Boston Scientific Background Common cut-offs for dense scar and ‘low-voltage areas’ on atrial 3D electroanatomical mapping are 0.05mV 0.50mV respectively. These not physiologically validated may fully represent underlying compared with unipolar readings or the novel parameter local impedance (LI). Object...

We present results from the deepest Herschel-Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer (PACS) far-infrared blank field extragalactic survey, obtained by combining observations of the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) fields from the PACS Evolutionary Probe (PEP) and GOODS-Herschel key programmes. We describe data reduction and the construction of images and catalogues. In the de...

We present optical spectra of four intermediate mass candidate young stellar objects that have often been classified as Herbig Ae/Be stars. Typical Herbig Ae/Be emission features are not present in the spectra of these stars. Three of them, HD 36917, HD 36982 and HD 37062 are members of the young Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC). This association constrains their ages to be ≤ 1 Myr. The lack of appre...

Using mid-IR and optical data, we deduce the total infrared (IR) luminosities of galaxies in the Coma cluster and present their infrared luminosity function (LF). The shape of the overall Coma IR LF does not show significant differences from the IR LFs of the general field, which indicates the general independence of global galaxy star formation on environment up to densities ∼ 40 times greater...

There are many examples of merging galaxy found in observational astronomy, yet the timescales on which merging happens do not allow for one to study the evolution of galaxy merging of any one merger. Furthermore, there are no standard techniques for the identification of the stage of a galaxy mergers progress in the merging process. In this paper, simulations of merging galaxies are analyzed f...