The rapid growth of the Internet means that more information is available than ever before. Multilingual multi-document summarisation offers a way to access this information even when it is not in a language spoken by the reader by extracting the gist from related documents and translating it automatically. This paper presents an experiment in which Maximal Marginal Relevance (MMR), a well know...

It is somewhat ironic that although youth today are saturated in media, no standardized instrument exists to measure individual differences in exposure to specific media content. Therefore, we developed and validated a scale to measure both the frequency and content of adolescents’ media exposure, which measures media exposure regardless of media channel: the Content-based Media Exposure Scale ...

A Huge amount of information is present on the WWW and lot is being added to it constantly. In this context, a query specific text summarization is one of the solutions to solve this problem. In this paper we apply MMR to accomplish the task of update summary generation.

Utilization of institutional delivery has an important implication for maternal and child health in India in terms of both morbidity and mortality. The utilization rates for institutional delivery are very low in large north Indian States. Reasons for such low institutionalized delivery care are mainly the low utilization rates of Ante Natal Care services. Safe motherhood intervention Scheme or...

In March 2014 an outbreak of measles commenced in a small religious school attended by around 350 children from families with extremely low MMR vaccination uptake. Within 4 weeks almost 400 cases were observed within the 1200 member congregation. Only four cases occurred unlinked to the congregation. While importations of measles into Canada are expected and rapid spread is possible in unimmuni...

Methods MMR seroprevalence and IgG-levels were retrospectively determined in 418 JIA patients aged 1–22 years of whom a stored sample was available. Clinical data and vaccination status were recorded. Sera were tested by ELISA. MMR serology of JIA patients was compared to 1989 agematched healthy controls (HC), in which serology had been previously determined. Analyses were adjusted for age and ...

Neural conversation systems, typically using sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models, are showing promising progress recently. However, traditional seq2seq suffer from a severe weakness: during beam search decoding, they tend to rank universal replies at the top of the candidate list, resulting in the lack of diversity among candidate replies. Maximum Marginal Relevance (MMR) is a ranking algorit...