NTCIR-9 RITE task evaluates systems which automatically detect entailment, paraphrase, and contradiction in texts. We developed a preliminary system for the NTCIR-9 RITE task based on rules. In NTCIR-10, we tried machine learning approaches. We transformed the existing rules into features and then added additional syntactic and semantic features for SVM. The straightforward assumption was still...

The current study assesses the psychological and psychiatric aftermath of war captivity; 164 Israeli ex-POWs and 189 comparable controls were assessed for posttraumatic stress disorder, intrusion and avoidance tendencies, and generalized psychiatric symptomatology 18 years after the war. Findings indicated that trauma-related psychopathology and general psychiatric symptomatology were more prev...