Passage Retrieval is a crucial step in question answering systems, one that has been well researched in the past. Due to the vocabulary mismatch problem and independence assumption of bag-of-words retrieval models, correct passages are often ranked lower than other incorrect passages in the retrieved list. Whereas in previous work, passages are reranked only on the basis of syntactic structures...

Studies of questions present strong evidence that there is no oneto-one relationship between intonation and interrogative mode. In this paper, we describe some aspects of prosodic variation in the Spontal corpus of 120 half-hour spontaneous dialogues in Swedish. The study is part of ongoing work aimed at extracting a database of 600 questions from the corpus, complete with categorization and pr...

BACKGROUND The present study examined the effects of repeating questions in interviews investigating the possible sexual abuse of children and youths who had a variety of intellectual disabilities. We predicted that the repetition of option-posing and suggestive questions would lead the suspected victims to change their responses, making it difficult to understand what actually happened. Incons...

Studies of questions present strong evidence that there is no one-to-one relationship between intonation and interrogative mode. We present initial steps of a larger project investigating and describing intonational variation in the Spontal database of 120 half-hour spontaneous dialogues in Swedish, and testing the hypothesis that the concept of a standard question intonation such as a final pi...

Clinical reasoning is a core competence of doctors. Therefore, the assessment of clinical reasoning of undergraduate students is an important part of medical education. Three medical universities in the Netherlands wish to develop a shared question database in order to assess clinical reasoning of undergraduate students in Computer-Based Assessments (CBA). To determine suitable question types f...

In the present paper, we describe the improvement of our Question Answering System (QAS). We added keywords relevance factor, search refinement and fine grain type extraction of the expected answer to the system. We attempted to avoid using heavy natural language processing techniques in order to process large amounts of data from the newspaper corpus database. These changes have yielded promis...

We provide a type-theoretical characterization of weakly-normalizing terms in an infinitary lambda-calculus. We adapt for this purpose the standard quantitative (with non-idempotent intersections) type assignment system of the lambda-calculus to our infinite calculus. Our work provides a new answer to Klop’s HHN-problem, namely, finding out if there is a type system characterizing the hereditar...