This paper describes the baselines proposed for the ResPubliQA task. These baselines are purely based on information retrieval techniques. The selection of an adequate retrieval model that fit the specific characteristic of the supplied data is considered as a core part of the task. Applying a not adequate retrieval function would return a subset of paragraphs where the answer could not appear,...

One hears that the credit ranking score has increased technical efficiency in financial holding companies, when a data envelopment analysis (DEA) is employed. Our empirical results show that the credit ranking scores will obviously affect the estimated results of efficiency measurement in Taiwan’s financial holding companies. Additionally, the effects on technical inefficiency could be attribut...

This paper regards the query keywords selection problem in source retrieval as learning a ranking model to choose the method of keywords extraction over suspicious document segments. Four basic methods are used in our ranking function: BM25, TFIDF, TF and EW. Then, a ranking model based on Ranking SVM is proposed to rank the query keywords group which is contributed to get the higher evaluation...

Information about small genetic variations in organisms, known as single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs), is crucial to identify candidate genes that have a role in disease susceptibility, a long-standing research goal in biology. While a number of established public SNP databases are available, the specification of effective techniques for SNP analysis remains an open issue. We describe a secon...

We query the pictures of Yahoo! News for persons and objects by using the accompanying news captions as an indexing annotation. Our aim is to find these pictures on top of the answer list in which the sought persons or objects are most prominently present. We demonstrate that an appearance or content model based on syntactic, semantic and discourse analysis of the short news text is only useful...

In this paper, we propose an unsupervised approach to automatically synthesize Wikipedia articles in multiple languages. Taking an existing high-quality version of any entry as content guideline, we extract keywords from it and use the translated keywords to query the monolingual web of the target language. Candidate excerpts or sentences are selected based on an iterative ranking function and ...

Microblogging is prominent e-communication medium on which short story are updated by the user based on their personal matter and other happening or coming immediate information. The quantity of information is large and also most of the data are redundant or irrelevant because of their popularity. This paper provides effectual techniques for summarization of inside story on microblogs sites suc...

BACKGROUND Posthumous organ procurement is hindered by the consenting process. Several consenting systems have been proposed. There is limited information on public relative attitudes towards various consenting systems, especially in Middle Eastern/Islamic countries. METHODS We surveyed 698 Saudi Adults attending outpatient clinics at a tertiary care hospital. Preference and perception of nor...

The paper describes RankFeed a new adaptive method of recommendation that benefits from similarities between searching and recommendation. Concepts such as: the initial ranking, the positive and negative feedback widely used in searching are applied to recommendation in order to enhance its coverage, maintaining high accuracy. There are four principal factors that determine the method’s behavio...